Characters in Bury Your Dead

Armand Gamache

Chief Inspector of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, recuperating in Quebec City after a catastrophic raid.

Also in Still Life, The Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone, The Brutal Telling, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning

Jean-Guy Beauvoir

Gamache's second-in-command, sent back to Three Pines to quietly reopen Olivier's case while nursing his own injuries.

Also in Still Life, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind, A Better Man, All the Devils Are Here

Émile Comeau

Gamache's retired mentor, who takes him in during the Winter Carnival.

Olivier Brulé

The Three Pines bistro owner convicted of murder in the previous book.

Ruth Zardo

The village's caustic, elderly poet.

Also in How the Light Gets In, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses, The Madness of Crowds, A World of Curiosities