For their next meeting in May 2023, the Iron Book Discussion Group will read Louise Penny’s A Better Man:
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: It’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter.
As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
Increasingly hounded by the question, how would you feel…, he resumes the search. As the rivers rise, and the social media onslaught against Gamache becomes crueler, a body is discovered. And in the tumult, mistakes are made.
Gamache must face a horrific possibility, and a burning question. What would you do if your child’s killer walked free?
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Copies of A Better Man can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and its available digitally through Overdrive/Libby as an ebook or an audiobook. A Better Man is also available to download as an audiobook through Hoopla.
An in-person discussion of A Better Man will be held at the library on Tuesday, May 9, at 7:00 PM.
And an online discussion of the book will be held via Zoom on Thursday, May 11, at 3:00 PM. If you’d like to attend the online discussion, please register through our Event Calendar. Participants will receive an email with the login information for Zoom after registering.
Published on April 20, 2023.
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