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Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death―and all the mystery that remains―from 1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has arrived in this beautiful, freezing city not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. Still, violent death is inescapable―even here, in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society, where one obsessive academic’s quest for answers will lead Gamache down a dark path. . . Meanwhile, Gamache is receiving disturbing news from his hometown village. Beloved bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder but everyone―including Gamache―believes that he is innocent. Who is behind this sinister plot? Now it’s up to Gamache to solve this killer case. . .and relive a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead. “Few writers in any genre can match Penny’s ability to combine heartbreak and hope.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review) Read more
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Publication date : August 2, 2011
Edition : First Edition
Language : English
Print length : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0312626908
ISBN-13 : 07
Item Weight : 11.9 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Book 6 of 21 : Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
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Top Amazon Reviews
Format: Paperback
All of Louise Penny’s mysteries are excellent, full of deep psychological insights and interesting, often beloved characters. This one is exceptional, however, in that it manages to alternate among four different stories—three contemporary and one historical—without being either confusing or frustrating, something few authors can manage. Penny chose change-over points that felt like natural breaks, so that it wasn’t painful to set aside one fascinating tale in order to pick up another, equally interesting one. I always recommend reading series in order, so that one can get to know the continuing characters and watch them develop, but in this case it’s particularly important to have read the previous book in Penny’s Inspector Gamache series, The Brutal Telling, before reading this one because one and a half of the stories in the present book grow out of it. The first of these continues the question of who killed the “Hermit” in the forest cabin near Penny’s Brigadoon-like Quebecois village, Three Pines; one of the regular Three Pines characters, bistro owner Olivier, was convicted of the crime at the end of the last book, but Olivier’s devoted partner, Gabri—probably along with a lot of readers—refuses to accept his guilt, so Gamache sends his second-in-command, Beauvoir, to Three Pines to reexamine the case while Gamache is busy elsewhere. The “half” involves appealing young agent Paul Morin, who was introduced in the earlier book; the peril in which Morin (along with Gamache and Beauvoir) finds himself in this story (told in flashbacks) does not grow out of that book, but readers who have read it will care more deeply about what happens to him. The other two mysteries, one present-day and one historical, center on the oldest parts of Quebec City, the capital of that mostly French-speaking Canadian province. They are Gamache’s, and the book’s, main focus. Penny’s rich descriptions of the Old City make me want to see it for myself someday, and she makes the Canadian history it embodies both clear and fascinating even to those of us whose previous knowledge of it came from dimly remembered social-studies texts. The old and new stories both involve the question of what happened to the body of Samuel de Champlain, the province’s founder, who is to the Quebecois what, say, George Washington is to people in the United States. The book also gives interesting information about the key 1759 battle between the French and the English, fought nearby, that shaped the fate of the province and, indeed, the country. It is a story that resonates with Gamache because both the French and the English generals made important mistakes, just as he feels he did in the terrorist case involving Paul Morin. Echoes of the battle also can still be felt in the still-strained relations between the French-speakers and the English-speakers (now a somewhat embattled minority) in the city, which play a major part in the contemporary mystery. Penny’s writing, whether describing people or places, is wonderful throughout. This book is not the best place to start on her series, but for those who already have some acquaintance with Gamache, his fellow police officers, and the denizens of Three Pines, I can’t recommend it enough.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2016 by lisaleo (Lisa Yount)
Format: Kindle
This is a mystery, and I want to communicate why this book is special while being careful not to give anything away. I have read hundreds of mysteries, and I have never read one so intricately put together. Louise Penny manages to interweave three story lines, actually four mysteries because the motive for one crime lies in a mystery in the founding and history of Quebec City. Moreover, Penny creates parallels among these story lines--for example, the title Bury Your Dead relates to the importance of burials or the placement of bodes in each story. At the very beginning of the book, the reader is introduced to a tragic incident months earlier from which Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir are still recovering. Their recoveries proceed separately but in parallel; the reader learns this tragic story gradually as they ruminate about it and begin to share it with others they trust. They become more themselves after they become invested in two other crimes that they separately investigate. Beauvoir's investigation follows up on the previous novel, The Brutal Telling, and brings in the familiar characters from Three Pines. Gamache's investigation introduces his mentor Emile Comeau as a character as well as bringing in the interesting history of the province and city of Quebec. The tension between French and English cultures, apparent in previous installments of the Gamache mysteries, takes center stage in this story line. This book will be much more meaningful to readers who already know the main characters. Jean-Guy Beauvoir becomes a more sympathetic character in this book, and Armand Gamache a more complex one because he is no longer perfect--he has been weakened by events, distrusts his judgment, and has to learn to accept his mistakes. If you don't care about these two characters and about the disruption to life in Three Pines that occurred in The Brutal Telling, the intricately interwoven story lines of Bury Your Dead might seem tedious rather than compelling. I don't agree with reviewers who stated that one has to read The Brutal Telling before this novel, but one does have to know something of the characters and their previous interactions, and care about them. Penny has created an impressive number of engaging continuing characters, from Gamache and his wonderful wife and his loyal and imperfect colleagues to the quirky and imperfect residents of Three Pines, as well as the interesting characters who become important in each particular novel. Being able to combine such wonderful characters with extremely well-crafted plots makes Louise Penny an impressive writer in the genre of cozy mysteries/police procedurals. I know I will read all of her novels in this series. My only disappointment in this novel is that her description did not make clear one aspect of what happened in the tragic event that begins and ends the book (even after I went back and forth between passages). Otherwise, this is a five-star mystery.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2013 by Bookaddict
Format: Kindle
Book Six of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series is the saddest so far. There is a sense of impending doom as we relive the memories of Gamache and Beauvoir during the countdown of their last case. A literal countdown that is infused with such sadness and feelings of helplessness. There are several threads to follow and the chapters do not necessarily delineate the different perspectives so you must pay attention. This installment in the Armand Gamache series includes FOUR mysteries in one: • Who really killed the man in the woods in the town of Three Pines? • Who killed an amateur archaeologist in Quebec? • Where is Quebec's founder, Samuel de Champlain, buried? What happened recently to Armand Gamache and his team, resulting in their injuries and PTSD? Throughout the story we come to understand a horrible case that took place, through the memories Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his second in command, Jean Guy Beauvoir, who are both suffering flashbacks and PTSD from what transpired. Three other mysteries run parallel in this book. Gamache is in Quebec recovering emotionally as well as physically from the earlier traumatic events. He becomes involved in a murder case steeped in politics, secrecy, and history. Meanwhile he directs Jean-Guy Beauvoir to take his convalescence in Three Pines and try to make sure that they did convict the right person of murder from Book Five. I highly recommend this series and recommend that you read them in order. I think this is my favorite book of the series, thus far.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2023 by Mary
Format: Kindle
So many descriptive details of art, architecture, food, great characters and best of all chief inspector Gramanche. Once again going forward and back in time, 2 crimes and there is no way to put this down!
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2026 by Nonie H. Greene
Format: Kindle
"This visit was different. Like no other in all the winters Chief Inspector Gamache had been coming to Quebec City. This time it was Gamache who needed help.” There are several story lines in this disquieting novel. Two are in the immediate past, the third is in the present. The elements of each are interwoven into one remarkable narrative. One involves a recent case gone bad as the Surete attempt to rescue a kidnaped officer. One involves a murder case in Three Pines where the Chief Inspector is, months later, questioning whether he got the right man. The third takes place in old Quebec City where a dead man has been found in the sub-basement of the Literary and Historical Society Library. Worried that centuries old grudges between the French and the Anglos may be re-ignited, the local police chief has sought Gamache’s assistance in the investigation. “...while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.” Past and present come together in this outstanding novel as Gamache and his assistant, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, are shocked and horrified when they are forced to view the past in a very vivid and disturbing manner. Bury Your Dead is book 6 in Louise Penny's mystery series. It is “paired” with book 5 and definitely should be read in sequence. All of the books in this series are well-written, the characters beautifully developed. A delightful series with plenty of twists and turns. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From the author: “Like the rest of the Chief Inspector Gamache books, Bury Your Dead is not about death, but about life. And the need to both respect the past and let it go.”
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Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022 by #EmptyNestReader
Format: Kindle
Authors can speak to you on different levels. Louise Penny is a storyteller who is able to manage multiple story lines within one novel. This book has three plot lines that include a terrorist attack, multiple murders, and a healthy dose of Canadian history. Ms. Penny can be described as a painterly author; her descriptions of people and places are so vivid that the reader can see clearly through her verbal renderings. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir are recuperating from wounds they sustained during a terrorist attack gone wrong. Gamache goes to Quebec City to recuperate and to visit with his mentor and former chief. There he becomes involved in a murder that rocks the English community in this French city. Augustin Renaud, considered a lunatic by many in Quebec City, has only one thing on his mind—finding the body of Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec, missing for 400 years. And now Renaud is dead, his body poorly buried under the Literary and Historical Society, a hushed library barely known, rarely visited. Gamache has sent Jean-Guy to Three Pines, a bucolic-appearing village that roils with undertones, to reconsider whether the police got a previous murder conviction right. Jean-Guy thought the people of Three Pines were “cunning, deceitful, arrogant, and nearly incomprehensible, especially the Anglos. They were dangerous because they hid their thoughts, hid their feelings, behind a smiling face. Who could tell what was really going on in their heads? They said one thing and thought another. Who knew what rancid thing lived, curled up, in that space between words and thoughts?” Recurring flashbacks to the terrorist attack that wounded Gamache and Beauvoir both mentally and physically plague them as they go about their investigations. Penny deftly interweaves these horrific memories into the story—so well, in fact, that the reader feel all the anguish of the two men right along with them. The temperature in Florida today as I write “feels like” 100+ degrees, and the humidity is so thick that it slaps you in the face as you open the door. What a delight to travel to Quebec City in December with Gamache: “. . .he marveled at the beauty as the first light hit the new snow. It looked more pale blue than white, and here and there it sparkled like tiny prisms where the flakes had drifted and collected, then caught, remade, and returned to light. Like something alive and giddy.” Penny describes the effects of the cold so well that I could feel the chill. As the book progresses, the cold becomes so pervasive a part of the story that it actually almost becomes a character itself. “He sat and put his hands to his face, feeling the burning. Extreme cold left its ironic mark. It was indistinguishable from a sunburn. But within minutes it had subsided, and the circulation had returned to his hands, helped along by sitting on them.” This is a cool August treat that is much better than a beach read!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2015 by GailFL
Overall I liked the book. The story flowed well and I felt that it was a nice follow up to Ms. Penny's previous book. In truth, the story consisted of three dominating plots. One was a recent murder in Quebec City into which CI Gamache gets drawn into, one is the continuation into the murder of the Hermit, and one dealt with events that occured between the previous book and this. I won't spoil anything by talking about it. The central theme to this book is the consequence of actions and how people have to live with what they have done and what has been done to them. This theme is developed well and it helps bring everything together in the book. There is also a number of historical points in the book that I felt help flesh out the story which made it more enjoyable for me. Of course I had minor dislikes in the story that I'm forced to live with. The major item was the relationship between CI Gamache and the Quebec City Homocide Division. It appeared to me that Gamache took over the case and the city washed their hands of it. No police force would let that happen regardless of who the 'expert' investigator was. There should have been more interaction with the local cops and the local cops should have been doing some of the leg work. After all, Gamache has no juridiciton in Quebec City and secondly, he was on medical leave. What would have happened to Inspector Langois career if something had gone wrong. Still, it is a good story and I do recommend it to anyone interested in police procedural stories.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2014 by I am Blind Man
Format: Kindle
This is the second of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels I've read, having started with How the Light Gets In. Suffice to say that no matter where one starts in the series, readers who love beautifully drawn characters and plots that are imaginative and complex (but never resort to gobsmacking "gotcha" trickery) will devour Louise Penny's books. Bury the Dead is, in fact, three mysteries at once -- each in the end connected directly or in other ways both heartbreaking and fascinating. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, in Quebec City to visit an old friend and mentor (and to heal from the psychological scars of the terrible price he and his team paid to foil an act of domestic terrorism) finds himself drawn into the mystery of the murder of Augustin Renaud. Renaud, a local fixture whose obsession with finding the missing remains of Samuel de Champlain has aggravated nearly everyone -- both English and French Quebecois -- is found with his skull crushed in the basement of the Literary and Historical Society, a musty repository of artifacts of the English heritage in Quebec. The question of what Renaud was doing seems clear: looking for Champlain; it's what he was always doing. But why in the basement of the Lit and His? And why was he murdered, and by whom? Meanwhile, in Three Pines, Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir -- Gamache's senior team member -- has reopened the Surete's investigation into the death of a local eccentric known as the Hermit, for which bistro owner Olivier has been convicted on the basis of seemingly incontrovertible evidence. But if Olivier didn't commit the crime, who is the real killer? Looming over all is the mystery of the never-found final resting place of Champlain. By turns mournful, and wickedly funny, Bury Your Dead is a masterful mystery by a gifted writer working at the top of her form. Gamache is a remarkable creation, finely drawn and fully realized -- the kind of mentor, boss and man we wish we knew or could be, and we come to care about him deeply Though of necessity drawn in broader strokes, the supporting characters are all memorable. Be warned: once you've read the first few pages you aren't likely to stop until you've read to the very end. Bury Your Dead is simply one of the best novels I've read in many years.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2014 by d70sfan