Tuesday 24 August 2021




 The Madness of Crowds- Louise Penny- Crime thriller

When a statistician is giving a lecture at a hall in a village outside Quebec,

the last thing the police expect is trouble. However the speaker has a

theory about post covid and has been stirring up feelings- social media

as ever spreads things even quicker than a virus. The police limit the

number of people and everyone is searched so how on earth did

firecrackers and a gun get into the hall and having been fired narrowly

miss the target- the speaker herself? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache

was at the scene- something everyone thought would be a non event

which they tried to cancel beforehand to no avail. Three pines village

has a distinguished visitor- a nobel peace prize candidater- but Haniya

has a very hard side to her as well as the saintly side, having

endured much in her short life. This is brilliantly written and a

page turner. Much is narrative rather than action but done to keep the

reader's interest and the pages turning easily. Although one of a

series, -this is number 17-this does stand alone ( I hadn’t read the

others).  To write a novel about post covid is a brave and interesting

scenario when we are just coming out of it in reality and the world

is a different place for all sorts of reasons, some of which is reflected

in the book- of people's mindsets etc. A clever concept and one

very well executed. One to keep the grey matter active and

wonder about the madness of crowds. 

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