A better man

The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Sûreté du Québec for his first day of work since being demoted from its command to head of homicide. Floodwaters are dangerously rising across the province, while Gamache is the subject of vicious online attacka. Set a complex first assignment in the search for missing woman Vivienne Godin, Gamache finds himself developing a profound empathy for her distraught father. But when a body is discovered, mistakes are made in the tumult, and Gamache is forced to reckon with the question: what he would do if his child's killer might walk free?