Pocket, Engelska, 2022
The Madness of Crowds
thrilling and page-turning crime fiction from the author of the bestselling Inspector Gamache novels
Av Louise Penny
Del 17 i serien Chief Inspector Gamache
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Beskrivning
ou'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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2022-05-24
- Mått: 128 x 197 x 27 mm
- Vikt: 313 g
- Format: Pocket
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Chief Inspector Gamache
- Antal sidor: 448
- Förlag: Hodder
- ISBN: 9781529379426
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Louise Penny is an international award-winning and bestselling author whose books have hit number one on the New York Times, USA Today and Globe and Mail lists. Her Chief Inspector Gamache novels have been translated into thirty-one languages and have sold over 18 million copies worldwide. She has received the Ordre National du Quebec and the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. In 2021, she co-authored the standalone thriller State of Terror with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Louise Penny lives in a village south of Montreal.
Recensioner i media
Penny is on peak form... The Madness of Crowds is a grown-up, timely thriller that considers the nature of cowardice - "there's no peace without courage" - and how to find and defend "that spot between freedom and safety
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8 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.9/5
- 5/5 Anne A
Ännu en briljant bok om Kommissarie Gamache och hans kollegor samt hans familj. Louise Pennys serie är den bästa jag läst någonsin och då har jag läst väldigt många böcker under mina snart 63 år på jorden.
- 5/5 Ulla N
Förra boken gjorde mig matt och kallsvettig och jag trodde att nu har hon nog nått gränsen för var vi kan följa vår älskade polis Gamache, men så sveps man med igen och denna gång i hemvan miljö - vi är åter i Three Pines. Men samtidigt finns mörkret där, i hörn och vrår, som alltid i Louise Pennys böcker. Men innevånarna i byn gör att man orkar ta sig igenom mörkret. Jag avundas dig som inte börjat läsa henne än, att få göra resan genom de 17 böcker hon producerat så här långt är en upplevelse utöver det vanliga.
- 5/5 Elisabeth J
- 4/5 Monica
- 5/5 Maggie H