Chief Inspector Armand Gamache finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request: 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. When a murder is committed it falls to Chief Inspector, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.
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