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  • Bury Your Dead

  • A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
  • By: Louise Penny
  • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
  • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (6,277 ratings)

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Bury Your Dead

By: Louise Penny
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Publisher's summary

"Ralph Cosham’s excellent narration of Louise Penny’s newest mystery demonstrates why a terrific narrator is an author’s best partner." —AudioFile Magazine

Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death—and all the mystery that remains—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has arrived in this beautiful, freezing city not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. Still, violent death is inescapable—even here, in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society, where one obsessive academic’s quest for answers will lead Gamache down a dark path . . .

Meanwhile, Gamache is receiving disturbing news from his hometown village. Beloved bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder but everyone—including Gamache—believes that he is innocent. Who is behind this sinister plot? Now it’s up to Gamache to solve this killer case . . . and relive a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead.

“Few writers in any genre can match Penny’s ability to combine heartbreak and hope.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Crack another case with Chief Inspector Gamache.
©2010 Three Pines Creations, Inc. (P)2010 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

“Ralph Cosham's excellent narration of Louise Penny's newest mystery demonstrates why a terrific narrator is an author's best partner…My only quibble is that the Penny-Cosham team kept me listening past my bedtime.” —AudioFile magazine

“This sixth entry in Agatha and Anthony award-winning author Penny's Armand Gamache series is among the best…The solution to both killings as well as the event that drew Gamache to Quebec in the first place are all slowly and expertly revealed.” —Library Journal

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Insights into humanity

Another reflection on the inner and outer space /psyche of relationships, life and death and how one can make sense of the journey...
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Loved this addition to the series

First off this is by far the best series of books I've ever listened to (I have over 300). This was another great addition to the series. It was two stories in one but I found it easy to follow. The characters are great as always and the humor is wonderful.

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Fantastic story and character development

Loved it! Will dive in deeply to next book. Excellent narration. I am learning more about the characters.



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Captivating

I enjoy how the characters have developed, the exquisite style of writing, and glimpses of life in Quebec. This was my favorite so far, although it was different in the flow and obviously more painful for Gamache, I loved it. Onto the next in series!

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Beautiful story

This is the best Inspector Gamache I have read. Just beautiful from beginning to end.

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Another great Gamache mystery!

Louise Penny has done it again! Excellent story with an excellent delivery… Can’t wait for the next book!

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another excellent Gamache story!

great narration and story line, the characters are very deep and everyone knows someone like one of these characters

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The lynchpin

We’ve listened out of order and still fallen in love with these characters and their worlds. While this book has more of the tension I usually avoid in novels and recreation, having seen a bit myself and having no more need of manufactured, it was worth this for the missing puzzle pieces, for the story and for all the ahas. So beautifully wrought across books, layered within this one, sad and true in the telling, joyful like snowflakes caught on your tongue - the big, fluffy kind.

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Great listen

I will be sad when I have finished listening to all of this series. But then will probably start over. Loved some bits of history on Quebec & the whole separatist movement.

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I'm in love with louise penny

the best of my favorite genre. such great exploration of humanity and good and evil

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