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'Very powerful - Penny's best book to date . . . A stunner (Stephen Booth )
Louise Penny writes like an angel and plots like the devil. Bury Your Dead had me on tenterhooks from the first page to the last (Alan Bradley )
Bury Your Dead has two intelligent plots and, as a bonus, you get to know a bit of Canadian history (The Times )
The author brings the intriguing story to life using ornate descriptions (Star Magazine )
Louise Penny writes like an angel and plots like the devil. Bury Your Dead had me on tenterhooks from the first page to the last (Alan Bradley )
Bury Your Dead has two intelligent plots and, as a bonus, you get to know a bit of Canadian history (The Times )
The author brings the intriguing story to life using ornate descriptions (Star Magazine )
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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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the sixth book in Louise Penny's murder mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Gamache and I think this series really does need to be read in order. So much of the emotional impact of this book was because I had come to know and love the characters by reading the preceding books in the series.
There are three story strands to follow; firstly, Gamache and Beauvoir have been injured in an incident at work which has had devastating implications. We only discover the full details of the incident in flashbacks throughout the book. In the second story arc, Gamache has doubts about the outcome of the murder case in book 5 (The Brutal Telling) and asks Beauvoir to return to The Three Pines to do some further investigation and finally there is a murder in Quebec where Gamache is recuperating and in trying to find the solution to this murder Gamache is drawn back to an old historical mystery and the founding of Quebec itself.
Once again, this book was everything I have come to expect from Louise Penny: good writing, thought-provoking themes and well-loved characters. She writes about Quebec and its history in a way that makes me want to visit the city.
I was gripped by all three storylines and this is a book I will want to reread in the future (whilst I'm impatiently waiting for book #7...)
There are three story strands to follow; firstly, Gamache and Beauvoir have been injured in an incident at work which has had devastating implications. We only discover the full details of the incident in flashbacks throughout the book. In the second story arc, Gamache has doubts about the outcome of the murder case in book 5 (The Brutal Telling) and asks Beauvoir to return to The Three Pines to do some further investigation and finally there is a murder in Quebec where Gamache is recuperating and in trying to find the solution to this murder Gamache is drawn back to an old historical mystery and the founding of Quebec itself.
Once again, this book was everything I have come to expect from Louise Penny: good writing, thought-provoking themes and well-loved characters. She writes about Quebec and its history in a way that makes me want to visit the city.
I was gripped by all three storylines and this is a book I will want to reread in the future (whilst I'm impatiently waiting for book #7...)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The eagerly awaited sixth Armand Gamache tale by the remarkable Louise Penny has just arrived and I'm all ears - literally because it is read by the award winning voice performer Ralph Cosham. Having narrated all titles in this sterling series Cosham is a standard bearer for voice performance, perfectly reflecting with tone, nuance, and anticipatory pause the sophisticated, complex mystery unfolding before us.
Moving easily from The Brutal Telling, Penny's last in this series, we find Chief Inspector Gamache on leave, time taken to recover from what he considers to be an unforgivably wrong decision. It is Winter Carnival in Quebec city, and Gamache seeks solitude in the quietude of the Literary and Historical society. However, there is little peace as a determined historian who had sought the body of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, meets an unexpected and violent end. Gamache, fearing an escalation of tensions between the English and French immediately becomes involved. Yet, he cannot help but wonder what the 400 year old grave of Champlain could possibly reveal that would cause someone to commit murder.
Meanwhile, another murder has taken place in the village of Three Pines, and Bistro owner, Olivier, has been convicted of the killing. Gamache's associate, Beauvvoir, is asking questions of the village's residents to determine whether or not anyone else had a motive for this murder.
Could the past and the present possibly be interrelated? With rich descriptions of Quebec and a fascinating story line Penny once again captures us. Yet another triumph for this author and narrator.
- Enjoy!
- Gail Cooke
Moving easily from The Brutal Telling, Penny's last in this series, we find Chief Inspector Gamache on leave, time taken to recover from what he considers to be an unforgivably wrong decision. It is Winter Carnival in Quebec city, and Gamache seeks solitude in the quietude of the Literary and Historical society. However, there is little peace as a determined historian who had sought the body of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, meets an unexpected and violent end. Gamache, fearing an escalation of tensions between the English and French immediately becomes involved. Yet, he cannot help but wonder what the 400 year old grave of Champlain could possibly reveal that would cause someone to commit murder.
Meanwhile, another murder has taken place in the village of Three Pines, and Bistro owner, Olivier, has been convicted of the killing. Gamache's associate, Beauvvoir, is asking questions of the village's residents to determine whether or not anyone else had a motive for this murder.
Could the past and the present possibly be interrelated? With rich descriptions of Quebec and a fascinating story line Penny once again captures us. Yet another triumph for this author and narrator.
- Enjoy!
- Gail Cooke
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this at the remainder bookshop, having forgotten that there's usually a reason that books are remaindered.
Quebec City: in the cellar of the English library a man is murdered. He is an archaeologist obsessed with finding the remains of the founder of the city, Samuel de Champlain.
Top cop Armand Gamache, who runs the police for the whole province, from the arctic circle to the US border, is in the city on restorative leave, following a disastrous case that saw some of his men die and left him fighting for his own life. He is also being deluged with letters from a friend whose partner he has recently put away for murder, pleading the man's innocence, and has asked a colleague to go over the evidence once more.
Penny's prose is pedestrian and the plot matches that, with the mystery unfolding at a stately pace. A new twist on the body in the library, perhaps, but that's the most that can be said about it. The narrative switches randomly between the investigation in Quebec City, the unofficial re-opening of the recent case and Gamache's angst concerning the disaster that decimated his squad. I found this last the most interesting and was always keen to get back to it.
Towards the end we have not one but two scenes in which Poirot gathers everyone in the drawing room ... sorry, I mean in which the detectives gather their suspects together to confront the murderer. Seriously?
Penny is an English speaking Canadian and has made her hero a French Canadian, which is all very well except that her French isn't really up to it. She has Gamache musing on the English idiom of 'learning by heart' and what it says about the English, which would work fine if French didn't have the exact same idiom.
More interesting is the city itself -- North American's only fortified city -- and the antagonism between the majority francophone and the 'square heads' -- the Anglophones. It made me want to visit Quebec.
To be fair, I did quite enjoy this, once I'd got past the plodding start, which almost made me throw in the towel, but why anyone would think it worthy of prizes is the biggest mystery of all.
Quebec City: in the cellar of the English library a man is murdered. He is an archaeologist obsessed with finding the remains of the founder of the city, Samuel de Champlain.
Top cop Armand Gamache, who runs the police for the whole province, from the arctic circle to the US border, is in the city on restorative leave, following a disastrous case that saw some of his men die and left him fighting for his own life. He is also being deluged with letters from a friend whose partner he has recently put away for murder, pleading the man's innocence, and has asked a colleague to go over the evidence once more.
Penny's prose is pedestrian and the plot matches that, with the mystery unfolding at a stately pace. A new twist on the body in the library, perhaps, but that's the most that can be said about it. The narrative switches randomly between the investigation in Quebec City, the unofficial re-opening of the recent case and Gamache's angst concerning the disaster that decimated his squad. I found this last the most interesting and was always keen to get back to it.
Towards the end we have not one but two scenes in which Poirot gathers everyone in the drawing room ... sorry, I mean in which the detectives gather their suspects together to confront the murderer. Seriously?
Penny is an English speaking Canadian and has made her hero a French Canadian, which is all very well except that her French isn't really up to it. She has Gamache musing on the English idiom of 'learning by heart' and what it says about the English, which would work fine if French didn't have the exact same idiom.
More interesting is the city itself -- North American's only fortified city -- and the antagonism between the majority francophone and the 'square heads' -- the Anglophones. It made me want to visit Quebec.
To be fair, I did quite enjoy this, once I'd got past the plodding start, which almost made me throw in the towel, but why anyone would think it worthy of prizes is the biggest mystery of all.
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Disappointing
Bury Your Dead is one of a series of detective novels featuring Quebec based Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Read more
Published 11 days ago by davidscott429
One-word sentences. Seriously?
This book was given to me as a bookclub assignment. I sat down to reading it a bit earlier, then needed. It usually takes me a day or two to finish a good book. Read more
Published 14 days ago by SilQ
Best so far?
Probably Louise Penny's best "Gamache" book to date. To appreciate it, it is best to have read the previous novel "A Brutal Telling" first - as the story continues, woven around... Read more
Published 1 month ago by ichthus
Great read
Well written and very absorbing and atmospheric. You'll need a thick jumper, because you feel as though you are there - in an icy, snowbound Quebec.
Published 4 months ago by dizzydeb
like PD James and Elizabeth George - gripping and suspenseful
This is the third Louise Penny book I have read, after Still Life and The Brutal Telling, and I can understand why she is acclaimed as the heir to PD James. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Val Coverly
author contradicts herself
Without giving away much, I can tell this: The author, while relating a new case of murder, reopens the case of her previous book (The Brutal Telling), her detective admitting his... Read more
Published 5 months ago by karabekirus
Rounds things off nicely
For those that read the Brutal Telling and loved it but felt something wasn't quite right, this is a must! Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dr. Jane C. Holland
Not impressed
I agree with the others who found both the storytelling and the writing here poor.
For me, there were two main problems with the writing: (1) there were an awful lot of... Read more
For me, there were two main problems with the writing: (1) there were an awful lot of... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Reader 11
Nicely paced investigation
A friend gave me this book as a present when I visited Canada recently, to give me an introduction to Canadian authors and books.
I really enjoyed this book. Read more
I really enjoyed this book. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Kathryn
A Disappointment
6th book the Chief Inspector Gamache series
'Bury your Dead', won numerous awards in Canada and other countries for being the 'Best Crime Novel' in 2010 and consequently... Read more
'Bury your Dead', won numerous awards in Canada and other countries for being the 'Best Crime Novel' in 2010 and consequently... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Toni Osborne
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