2016 Audie Award Finalist, Mystery. When an imaginative nine-year-old disappears from Three Pines, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. The search for him leads to murder, an old crime, and an old betrayal. Retired investigator Armand Gamache must face the possibility that, in not believing he boy, he played a terrible part in what happens next. 11th in the series. "Characters of remarkable depth in an exhilarating whodunit."—People magazine