The Madness of Crowds

The Madness of Crowds

by Louise Penny
Publication Date: 09/09/2021

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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel


You’re a coward.


Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.


It starts innocently enough.


While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.


He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.


While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.


They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart.


Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold.


Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ça va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone.


When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.


And the madness of crowds.

ISBN:
1230005149254
1230005149254
Category:
Crime & mystery
Publication Date:
09-09-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Michael Pitt
Louise Penny

Louise Penny is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache series, including Still Life, which won the CWA John Creasey Dagger in 2006.

Recipient of virtually every existing award for crime fiction, Louise was also granted The Order of Canada in 2014.

She lives in a small village south of Montreal.

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