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Hirsch's rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus, Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close to the edge.

Giorgio Pellegrini, the hero of The Goodbye Kiss, has been living an “honest” life for 11 years. But that’s about to change. His lawyer has been deceiving him, and now, Giorgio is forced into service as an unwilling errand boy for an organized crime syndicate. At one time, Giorgio wouldn’t have thought twice about robbing, kidnapping, and killing in order to get what he wanted, but these days, he realizes he’s too long in the tooth to face his enemies head-on. To return to his peaceful life as a successful businessman, he’s going to have to find another way.

Juin 1976. Alors qu’une terrible canicule s’abat sur tout le Québec, les Jeux olympiques de Montréal se profilent à l’horizon. Mais à Sainte-Foy, en banlieue de la Vieille Capitale, H se soucie peu de la chaleur et des Jeux. À peine sorti de prison, il perd le nouvel emploi qui était censé consacrer sa réinsertion sociale. Des gens devront payer pour ce nouvel échec! Daniel Duval, lui, est enquêteur à la Sûreté du Québec.