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Vorbestellen	Bibliothek: Schildesche	Signatur: Penn	Standort 2: Englisch	Standort 3:	Barcode: 18273465	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 08.05.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

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 theSûreté 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 that he begs the unibversity 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 ebcome 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.