New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Armand Gamache, head of homicide for the Surete du Quebec, set in the town of Three Pines just as it is beginning to emerge from the lockdown, isolation and fears of the pandemic years - but then he is requested to provide security at a speech being given by a university professor - a statistician who uses her statistical studies, and plausible manner, to argue that involuntary euthanasia of the weak and elderly is the only way forward. Illustrated endpapers. 436 pp. ISBN: 978-1250145260.