Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his wife Reine-Marie celebrate each wedding anniversary by staying at an isolated Canadian resort called Manoir Bellechase. This time while they're there, another family is staying there as well, having a reunion of sorts, although the family members don't seem to like one another very much. The old mother is there with her second husband and her four adult children, ready to unveil a statue of her first husband, which will be permanently installed on the grounds of the resort. The statue is huge and the man's eyes are sorrowful. Sometime during the night after the statue is unveiled, one of the daughters, Julie, is crushed by the statue. This was not an accident. The question is not only who would have murdered her (suspects in her own family are plentiful), but how did the murderer manage to make the statue topple, something so large that a crane was needed to set it into place on its base.While his team investigates all the details of the family and the staff at the resort, Chief Inspector Gamache spends his time listening carefully to the people involved, looking for the grievances and hurts that grow over time until they can turn into the making of a murderer. This is particularly difficult for him to learn with a family so divided and antagonistic that it doesn't seem that they are as interested in finding the murderer as in continuing their blame games from childhood and keeping their secrets unshared.
A Rule Against Murder is the 4th book in this series.
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