Welcoe in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christ for murder No one liked CC de Poitiers Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter--and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines CC de Poitiers ht up until the moment of her death When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Sûreté du Québec, is called to investigate, he quickly realizes he&39;s dealing with someone quite extraordinary CC de Poitiers was electrocuted in the e, as she watched the annual curling tourna Who could have been insane enough to try such a h to succeed? With his trades beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find the dangerous secrets long buried there For a Quebec winter is not only staggeringly beautiful but deadly, and the people of Three Pines know better than to reveal tooclear to Ga evenfor Gamache himself