While the others were pale, she was flushed as she read not a text or tweet but an email. Off in the far corner, one agent was staring at her phone, a deep line forming between her brows. Chief Superintendent Toussaint will set them straight.’ Then, dropping them, he reached for his phone. One senior officer put his head in his hands and massaged his temples. Words their grandparents had considered sacred but were now profane. Words were muttered under their breaths as they read.
Like the sound of near- dead tree limbs in the breeze. The room fell silent, except for the soft clicking from each device. ‘Who’s writing this crap? They don’t even mention he got the stuff back.’ ‘That’s insane,’ said one of the senior officers, grabbing the phone and reading it for herself. Probably put on trial and thrown in prison.’ He should have been fired, at the very least. ‘They have no idea what they’re talking about. Deliberately allowing catastrophic amounts of opioids onto the streets. ‘ Having achieved the pinnacle of power as Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté,’ she read, ‘ Gamache promptly abused it. The room was electric with anticipation. Now heightened even further by what was blowing up on their phones. Though there was very little ‘regular’ about this meeting. It was eleven minutes to eight, and members of the homicide department were gathering for the regular Monday- morning meeting to discuss ongoing investigations. Other agents and inspectors scrambled for their phones, tapping away while glancing out the open door. ‘Well, it’s bullshit retweeted by hundreds.’ ‘Disastrous? That’s bullshit,’ said one of the officers.
The other agents in the conference room looked over as he read off his cell phone, ‘ This is Armand Gamache’s first day back at the Sûreté du Québec after a suspension of nine months following a series of ill- advised and disastrous decisions.’ Someone from Serious Crimes just sent a link. Read on for an extract from the first chapter. Gripping and full of suspense, A Better Man is the spellbinding new crime thriller from New York Times number one bestseller, Louise Penny.
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