Bury Your Dead

As followers of my Instagram account know, a couple of weeks ago I went to Quebec for a vacation with my husband and the night before we arrived, I started reading Bury Your Dead. I started this sixth book in the popular series because I knew the author Louise Penny lived in Quebec and her series is set there as well. When in Quebec and all that.

What I didn't realize is that this book is set in her wee town of Three Pines aaaaand also in Quebec City where we were headed. Serendipity! Walking the same streets and even visiting the museum/library featured in this book made this such an amazing reading experience.

I simply loved this book with its fantastic character development and depth, twists and I enjoyed meeting up with her characters again. It had been years since I had read the previous book, so I struggled a bit remembering what had transpired (totally my bad), but otherwise I loved how Penny blends Quebec history with a murder mystery and the complicated lives of the villagers of Three Pines.

If you haven't picked up this series and you love a great mystery and want a series that pulls you into the lives, loves and losses of its characters, you'll want to read the Inspector Gamache series - just make sure you read them in order.

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My Rating: 4.5 stars

Author: Louise Penny

Genre: Mystery, Canadian

Series: #6 in the Inspector Armand Gamache series

Type and Source: Trade Paperback from public library

Publisher: Minotaur Books

First Published: September 28, 2010

Opening Lines: Up the stairs they raced, taking them two at a time, 

trying to be as quiet as possible. Gamache struggled to keep his 

breathing steady, as though he was sitting at home, as though 

he had not a care in the world.

Book Description from GoodReads: 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 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. "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 a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead.