It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache hascome not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society- where an obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain...

This is a biography of the French explorer who was dedicated to establishing France's presence in North America.

A biography of Samuel de Champlain, the sixteenth-century explorer best known for discovering and mapping the Great Lakes region.