When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sret du Qubec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly…