He discovers that Plessner and Stephen have been staying in a luxury suite at the Hotel George V instead of in Stephen’s apartment.Īrmand begins suspecting Claude Dussault of covering up a complex crime. Armand has never heard of Plessner before. The murdered man in Stephen’s apartment is Alexander Francis Plessner, an engineer and investor in engineering patents. He sends Reine-Marie outside while he tries to track down the intruder, but they get away. Claude has a new second-in-command, a formidable woman named Irene Fontaine.Īrmand and Reine-Marie enter Stephen’s apartment and find a dead body among the rampaged apartment. The Prefect of Paris Police, Claude Dussault, takes over the case.
The Gamache family is sure that it was not an accident. After a family dinner out, Stephen is struck by a delivery truck and falls into a coma. The Gamaches go to Paris in preparation for Annie’s second childbirth, and Armand makes sure to spend time with Stephen, a close family friend and billionaire who is now 93 years old. Armand’s son Daniel and his wife Roslyn have also moved to Paris with their two daughters for Daniel’s new job at an important Parisian bank. Jean-Guy has recently left the demanding and dangerous job of the Sûrete for a consulting position at GHS Engineering, a private engineering firm. His daughter Annie, married to his former second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, is pregnant with their second child. Both his adult children have recently moved there. Armand Gamache, head of homicide investigation at the Sûrete de Québec, travels to Paris with his wife Reine-Marie.
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