In this book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series, Armand and his wife Reine-Marie have gone to Paris to visit with both of their children and their families as they await the birth of their daughter Annie's child. Armand's godfather, Stephen Horowitz, a elderly billionaire, joins them in Paris, too. After a family dinner in a restaurant, as they walk back to where they're staying, Stephen is hit by a van, which zooms away. The family feels sure that the attack was targeted, but the police in Paris are quite skeptical of Armand, who they view as merely a country bumpkin from Canada.
As Armand, his wife, and their son-in-law Jean-Guy (who is now working at an engineering firm in Paris, having left the danger of police work in Montreal) investigate the hit-and-run, while visiting Stephen (who remains hospitalized on life support), the mystery deepens. Stephen's own background seems somewhat questionable. And Armand's strained relationship with his son Daniel is also visited, as is the friendship of Armand with Claude Dussault, the Prefect of the Paris police. In this story, it's imperative to know who's on what side, and that's impossible to know!
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