Paperback, 400 pages
English language
Published Aug. 2, 2011 by Minotaur Books.
Bury Your Dead is a book written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books (an imprint of St. Martin's Press, owned by Macmillan Publishers) on 28 September 2010, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2011.
This is a splendid and reasonably complex mystery. There are quite a few flashbacks, which kept me on my 'feet'. The tale is peopled by flawed, imperfect people who care deeply for competing causes and allegiances. If you are new to Armand Gamache, this should NOT be your first encounter.
I wanted to read more mysteries. Slowly making my way through The Inspector Armand Gamache series, mostly in winter. This strengthens a sense of continuity between the books and offers history lessons on Quebec; the long-standing tensions between French and English Canadians. If it wasn’t clear before, Gamache is not infallible, and we see the large-scale and deeply personal effects this has on him and others around him.
