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The madness of crowds

Penny, Louise, author, Penny, Louise. Three Pines mystery ;

2021

Overview

\"You're a coward.\" Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. While the residents of the Quebec 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 nearly 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. Provided by publisher

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Subject: Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character) Fiction. / Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character) / Police Québec (Province) Fiction. / Fathers and daughters Fiction. / Women college teachers Fiction. / Truthfulness and falsehood Fiction. / Collective behavior Fiction. / Murder Investigation Fiction. / Missing persons Fiction. / Homicide. / Police. / Truth Disclosure / Faculty / Women. / Father and child. / Mass Gatherings / Police Qu©♭bec (Province) Fiction. / Women / Father-Child Relations / Pères et filles Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Personnes disparues Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Mensonge Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Comportement collectif Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Meurtre Enquêtes Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Femmes. / Père et enfant. / FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional. / FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery. / FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense. / Women college teachers. / Truthfulness and falsehood. / Murder Investigation. / Collective behavior. / Fathers and daughters. / Missing persons. / Police Fiction. / Homicide Fiction. / Colleges and universities Faculty Fiction. / Québec (Province) Fiction. / Quebec / Québec.
• ISBN: 9781250145260, 1250145260

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9199.4.P464 M33 2021	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE