Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novelWhile the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro, the Chief Inspector’s holiday is interrupted by a simple request.He’s asked to provide security for a visiting professor’s lecture at the nearby university. It sounds easy enough, at least until Gamache starts looking into Prof. Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs them to cancel.They refuse and as Prof. Robinson’s views seep into conversations, discussions become debates, then fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold.When a murder is committed it falls to Gamache to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.