Penny, Louise  
  
  
    When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse
 the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension
 and frankly curious
 Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers
 the bookseller from Three Pines
 and a young builder. 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 sane? When a body is found
 the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.