The Madness of Crowds: Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Book 17

The incredible new book in Louise Pennys #1 bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series.\r\n\r\nWhen Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given at the Universite de lEstrie in Quebec, he is dubious. Why ask the head of homicide to provide security for what sounds like a minor, even mundane lecture?\r\n\r\n But dangerous ideas about who deserves to live in order for society to thrive are rapidly gaining popularity, fuelled by the research of the eminent Professor Abigail Robinson. Yet for every person seduced by her theories there is another who is horrified by them. When a murder is committed days after the lecture, its clear that within crowds can lie madness.\r\n\r\n To uncover the truth, Gamache must put his own feelings about the divisive Professor to one side. But with her ideas gaining ground, the line separating good and evil, right and wrong, is quickly blurring - especially when the case leads unexpectedly close to home ...\r\n\r\nPRAISE FOR LOUISE PENNY AND THE INSPECTOR GAMACHE SERIES:\r\n\r\nLouise Penny is one of the greatest crime writers of our times DENISE MINA\r\n\r\n She makes most of her competitors seem like wannabes THE TIMES\r\n\r\nGamache has become to Canada what Hercule Poirot is to Belgium THE NEW YORK TIMES\r\n\r\nLouise Penny twists and turns the plot expertly tripping the reader up just at the moment you think you might have solved the mystery DAILY EXPRESS\r\n\r\nThe series is deep and grand and altogether extraordinary . . . Miraculous WASHINGTON POST\r\n\r\nNo one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny. ELLY GRIFFITHS\r\n\r\nAn absolute joy IRISH TIMES