Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesnt cry wolf From alien invasions to walking trees to winged beasts in the woods to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache who now live in the little Quebec villageBut when the boy disappears the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been trueAnd so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder leads to an old crime leads to an old betrayal Leads right to the door of an old poetAnd now it is now writes Ruth Zardo And the dark thing is hereA monster once visited Three Pines And put down deep roots And now Ruth knows it is backArmand Gamache the former head of homicide for the SxFBretxE du QuxEbec must face the possibility that in not believing the boy he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.
