Bury Your Dead

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.