• 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 (6,226 ratings)

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Bury Your Dead

By: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
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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.
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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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Surprises around every turn!

My favorite in the series so far. And now I want to visit Quebec!
Highly recommend this book to other’s!

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Enjoying this series, but.......

A friend recommended The Gamache series and, having found them difficult to obtain from the library, I chose the Audible route. I have enjoyed the series and am smitten with the Narrator (who I just read passed away!!).

This was the first time I felt that listening had a negative impact. Within each chapter, there was so much switching from past to present that I found myself stopping short as I struggled to place the current scene in time. Not terrible, but it did take me out of the story. This was especially an issue with Beauvoir's visit to 3 Pines and his evolving relationships with its citizens (spoiler alert: Jean Guy and Ruth???)

I give it 4 stars anyway. I find these books good company as I make my way through the tasks of my day.



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Great

Best of the series yet. Characters are fragile, flawed, kind, humorous and troubled. I want to visit Three Pines

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Must Read Series - Great standalone book

This book made up for book 5 being slow and drawn out. There are three different storylines taking place in book 6 (Burry Your Dead) and Louise weaves them together beautifully. The character development and historic and cultural overtones are fantastic in this series. I love immersing myself into this world. Not only is the storytelling complex and lovely, Ralph Cosham was the perfect choice for the voice actor.

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My favorite so far!

Each book captures my imagination and interest. With all the history mixed in, this is my favorite so far!

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Beautiful Quebec scenes, stoic Gamache

Always a pleasure but the plot in this one seemed a bit too drawn out and/or repetitive.

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So evocative and so descriptive

I love Louise Penny novels and her character Inspector Gamache is so engaging. I don't think this is her best book but try as I might, I cannot stop listening once I start. This book has two plots, one in Three Pines and the other in Quebec City. The reader is educated about the history of Quebec and the conflicts between Anglophones and Francophones. Intricately woven through this duo plot are flash-backs to a police operation gone bad involving Gamache.

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Rich in details about Quebec City +Champlain

I learned even more about the history & culture of our neighbors just north of us who live in VT’s Northeast Kingdom. Ah, and the sense of belonging and ‘not all is how it appears’. THANK YOU/Merci Beaucoup Ms Penney.

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My favorite, so far.

I loved all of it. Though, the sentimentalist in wanted part of the ending to be different.

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ack

like I mentioned before these storied just keep getting better and better. so... what's next.

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