Amy and Dan Cahill's quest to find the million dollars takes them to Vienna, where they must outwit their power-hungry relatives as they seek to solve a clue involving Mozart.

Gabby es una asistente pediátrica que se acaba de mudar al barrio de Travis Parker. Él ha intentado ser un buen vecino, invitarla a sus barbacoas y a pasar el día con sus amigos en su lancha, pero ella ha resistado cada uno de los intentos de su guapísimo y encantador vecino, en parte porque le sería demasiado fácil sentirse atraída por él. Y eso sería un problema porque Gabby tiene novio.

At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members.

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and...