You were right. They have an agenda. I think your father might be facing more than suspension or even being fired.
-- Beauvoir (Chapter 6)

Importance: Beauvoir was frustrated with the investigators from the Sûreté because they seemed to be dragging out their decision about Gamache and his suspension far beyond the time it should have taken them to resolve the matter. In this quote, he tells his wife, Annie, that he fears that the Sûreté might actually level charges against Gamache in regard to the drug raid.

It says here,’ Myrna looked back down and put her finger under the line as she read, ‘I bequeath to my three children the sum of five million dollars each.
-- Myrna (Chapter 7)

Importance: Myrna and the others are shocked when they read Bertha’s will and discover that she left far more money to her children than she actually had. They learn that Bertha’s family believed they...