It's summer in the Dordogne, and the heirs of a sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited. Their father's estate has been sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a retirement home, but the farmer dies before he can move in. Was it foul play? Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges is on the case—his 13th, after Body in the Castle Well—following leads to a shadowy Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport.