<p><b>''One of the greatest crime writers of our times'' DENISE MINA</b><br><br><b>There is more to solving a crime than following the clues.</b><br><b>Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache''s world of facts and feelings.</b><br><br>The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the S¿ret¿u Qu¿c for his first day of work since being demoted from its command to head of homicide.<br><br>Amid blistering personal social media attacks, Gamache sets out on his first assignment. He has been tasked with finding a missing woman, but while he leads the search for Vivienne Godin, Three Pines itself is threatened when the river breaks its banks, and a province-wide emergency is declared.<br><br>As the waters rise, a body is discovered - and the victim''s distraught father contemplates a murder of his own. Gamache is a father himself, and is haunted by a question . . . what would he do, if his child''s killer might walk free?<br><br><b>Ten million readers.</b><br><b>Three pines.</b><br><b>On