Bury Your Dead - Hardcover

Penny, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312377045 ISBN 13: 9780312377045

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2010

Synopsis

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 historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it?

Although he is supposed to be on leave, Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. "It doesn't make sense," Olivier's partner writes every day. "He didn't do it, you know." As past and present collide in this astonishing novel, Gamache must relive the terrible event of his own past before he can bury his dead.

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Review:

Penny's first five crime novels in her Armand Gamache series have all been outstanding, but her latest is the best yet, a true tour de force of storytelling....Penny hits every note perfectly in what is one of the most elaborately constructed and remarkably moving mysteries in years. * Booklist * Her beautifully elegiac sixth book interweaves three story lines while plumbing the depths of Gamache's grief. The result is sophisticated and moving - her best yet * People Magazine *

Book Description:

International phenomenon Louise Penny makes her Sphere debut with an ingenious mystery sure to delight readers of P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, and Donna Leon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312377045
• ISBN 13: 9780312377045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 371