Bury Your Dead

L.Penny just keeps getting better and better with each book. I blew threw the most recent three books in her Inspector Gamache series when I was snowed in for a few days. (Thank God for the Kindle. I just downloaded the next one right from my cozy bed. No trip to the bookstore in a blizzard, risking life and limb for the next installment. Such a fantastic invention!)

I would recommend these to anyone who is a fan of both the cozy and the police procedural. Somehow L.Penny has managed to concoct the perfect blend of both.

If you do pick these up, they are best read in order to get the full effect of the character development, which is marvelously well-crafted.

Short Review: You need to have read book 5 prior to this one to make sense. Gamache and his second in command Beauvoir are both recovering from the physical and emotional wounds they received in a failed rescue of kidnapped officer. The reader doesn't get the whole story until close to the end, but it deepens your understanding of both men's views of the world. Gamache is staying with his retired mentor in Quebec City when there is a murder at the library of the small English community where Gamache has been doing research. Beauvoir is sent by Gamache to Three Pines to see if they missed something in the last case.

More than most in the series this is a mystery about the history of Quebec.


My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/bury-your-dead/

Louise Penny's books have quickly become favorites of mine and I wait in anticipation each time I hear there is going to be a new one! This latest installment takes place (for the most part) outside of Three Pines and even though that usually means I will enjoy the story (slightly) less, this was not the case at all for this particular book! I found the Samuel de Champlain angle fascinating, and Ms. Penny's way with words, details and descriptions makes you want to pull up stakes and follow Armand Gamache wherever he may go! Could not recommend this book (or the other 5) more highly.

A lot going on in this one novel, but classic LP. I enjoyed it so much. Now I want to visit Quebec and learn more of the history. I should round this up to 4.5. The only negative is that I'm not sure how I feel about this being really the second part of the last book. And I also felt it was a lot of people and stories to keep track of here.