Bury Your Dead
Ratings36
Average rating4.4
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Ratings36
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.
Louise Penny's books have quickly become favorites of mine and I wait in anticipation each time I hear there is going to be a new one! This latest installment takes place (for the most part) outside of Three Pines and even though that usually means I will enjoy the story (slightly) less, this was not the case at all for this particular book! I found the Samuel de Champlain angle fascinating, and Ms. Penny's way with words, details and descriptions makes you want to pull up stakes and follow Armand Gamache wherever he may go! Could not recommend this book (or the other 5) more highly.
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18 primary books19 released booksChief Inspector Gamache Mysteries is a 19-book series with 18 primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Louise Penny and Ralph Cosham.
