Bury Your Dead
Ratings41
Average rating4.4
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Ratings41
Average rating4.4
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society - where an obsessive historians quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly four hundred years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Meanwhile Gamache is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. As past and present collide, Gamache must relive the terrible events of his own past before he can bury his dead.
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L.Penny just keeps getting better and better with each book. I blew threw the most recent three books in her Inspector Gamache series when I was snowed in for a few days. (Thank God for the Kindle. I just downloaded the next one right from my cozy bed. No trip to the bookstore in a blizzard, risking life and limb for the next installment. Such a fantastic invention!)
I would recommend these to anyone who is a fan of both the cozy and the police procedural. Somehow L.Penny has managed to concoct the perfect blend of both.
If you do pick these up, they are best read in order to get the full effect of the character development, which is marvelously well-crafted.
Short Review: You need to have read book 5 prior to this one to make sense. Gamache and his second in command Beauvoir are both recovering from the physical and emotional wounds they received in a failed rescue of kidnapped officer. The reader doesn't get the whole story until close to the end, but it deepens your understanding of both men's views of the world. Gamache is staying with his retired mentor in Quebec City when there is a murder at the library of the small English community where Gamache has been doing research. Beauvoir is sent by Gamache to Three Pines to see if they missed something in the last case.
More than most in the series this is a mystery about the history of Quebec.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/bury-your-dead/
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17 primary books18 released booksChief Inspector Gamache Mysteries is a 18-book series with 17 primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Louise Penny.
