The slight difference Clara notices between the murals and Jane’s painting holds the clue to her murder.Ĭerebral, wise and compassionate, Gamache is destined for stardom. Because no one had ever been allowed past Jane’s kitchen, everyone’s dumbfounded to find walls, recently covered by Yolande in appalling wallpaper, full of murals. Meanwhile, an equally arrogant trainee has not done her job checking wills, and a new one turns up leaving almost everything to Jane’s neighbor Clara Morrow, a married artist who’d been like a daughter to Jane, whose youthful romance had been quashed by her parents. Her obnoxious niece Yolande, who can’t wait to get into Jane’s house, gets a court order to keep the police out.

Jane, who never exhibited her work, had just had an astonishing folk art painting accepted for a show. His longtime associate Beauvoir takes over while Gamache ponders the case. Is it a hunting accident or murder? Gamache sets up shop in the charming village B&B owned by a gay couple but is suspended when he refuses to arrest a local bowman who confesses after his sullen son is fingered for the crime. Three Pines, an appealing Quebecois community, is shaken by the death of a beloved longtime village schoolteacher and unsung artist.Ĭhief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team find that Miss Jane Neal has been shot through the heart with an arrow.

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