Louise Penny is a Canadian crime novelist, born in Toronto in 1958. She spent eighteen years as a radio host and journalist with the CBC before leaving in 1996 to write fiction. Her debut, Still Life, introduced Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and won the Arthur Ellis, Anthony, Barry and Dilys awards for best first novel. The Gamache books are set largely in Three Pines, a fictional Quebec village, and have since won multiple Agatha and Anthony awards. In 2021 she co-wrote...
Bury Your Dead
Bury Your Dead
Synopsis
Still recovering from the raid that cost him dearly, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache retreats to Quebec City during the Winter Carnival, staying with his old mentor Emile Comeau. Rest is short-lived: the body of an obsessive amateur historian is found in the basement of the Literary and Historical Society, and the search that killed him — for the lost grave of Samuel de Champlain — pulls Gamache into the old fault lines between the city's English and French.
At the same time, Gamache cannot let go of Three Pines. Olivier Brulé sits in prison for a murder Gamache is no longer certain he committed, and Jean-Guy Beauvoir is sent quietly back to the village to take the case apart from the beginning.
Bury Your Dead braids three investigations together — the killing in Quebec City, the reopening of Olivier's conviction, and the slow return of the raid Gamache cannot stop reliving. It is the sixth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, and among the most inward-looking in the series.
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Armand GamacheProtagonist
Chief Inspector of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, recuperating in Quebec City after a catastrophic raid.
Jean-Guy BeauvoirSupporting
Gamache's second-in-command, sent back to Three Pines to quietly reopen Olivier's case while nursing his own injuries.
Émile ComeauSupporting
Gamache's retired mentor, who takes him in during the Winter Carnival.
Olivier BruléSupporting
The Three Pines bistro owner convicted of murder in the previous book.
Ruth ZardoSupporting
The village's caustic, elderly poet.
