The Madness of Crowds

The Madness of Crowds" is another spellbinding novel about Chief Inspector Armand Gamache by Louise Penny.

The residents of Three Pines enjoy the snow and Christmas time with skiing, hot chocolate and dinner parties while Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has to work. A visiting Professor of Statistics is coming to lecture at the nearby university and Gamache has to provide the security. It turns out that Professor Abigail Robinson has a chocking agenda, and Gamache therefore begs the university to cancel the lecture. But they refuse in the name of free speech and academic freedom. Now Gamache is accused of censorship and intellectual cowardice and the little town is in uproar. It all culminates with a murder...

Louise Penny combines a thought-provoking plot with a mysterious crime that only Chief Inspector Armand Gamache can solve in "The Madness of Crowds".