Kingdom of the Blind

Why would a complete stranger ñame Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache one of the executors of her will? The will is so bizarre and ineludes such wildly unlikely bequests that Gamache suspeets the woman was downright delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane? When a dead body turns up, the terms of the will suddenly seem far more menacing. Meanwhile, the investigation into the events that led to Gamache’s suspensión keeps deepening. Most of the opioids Gamache let slip through his hands—in order to bring down the big-city cartels—have been retrieved, but there is one devastating exception. Soon, he enters a race against time to locate the deadly missing drug. As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve it, Gamache begins to see his own blind spots and the terrible truth that may be hiding in plain sight.