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Anticipated Book of AugustBustle - A Most Anticipated Book of AugustChief Inspector Armand
Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest
spellbinding novelYou'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.
