Armand Gamache, retired Chief Inspector Of Homicide with the Sûreté Du Québec, has found peace. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a book. "There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole."
Armand doesn’t talk about his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter is not home. With his Son-in-law, Jean-Guy and Myrna Landers, they journey to the mouth of Fleuve St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, the first mariners called it the land God gave to Cain.