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A review by cooperca
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
5.0
After the did he/did he not kill the Hermit, I had to find out the answer.
Bury Your Dead finds Gamache in Quebec City recovering from an investigation gone horribly wrong. Spending alone time in the Literary and Historical Society, a very real place that has now been added to my bucket list (visit http://www.morrin.org/en/), soon Gamache finds himself working with the local police to solve a murder.
This installment of Chief Inspector Gamache is different from the others as this one has four storylines intertwined throughout the novel: 1) who killed Renaud, 2) where is Champlain buried, 3) if Olivier didn't kill the old man in the previous investigation, who did, and 4) what is the investigation that went horribly wrong that has Gamache and Beauvoir on medical leave and the rest of his team being summoned to testify.
First, there's Augustin Renaud, a man on the quest of finding Samuel de Champlain (one of the men credited with founding Quebec and Canada and who's burial place is still a mystery) who is found murdered in the basement of the Lit and His Society. Gamache (who is on leave) accepts the offer to assist with the investigation and with the help of his mentor, Emile Comeau, finds papers written during Champlain's time. With the threat that Champlain could have been buried under the Lit and His Society, Gamache is able to uncover who the killer is. As a new member of the Lit and His Board of Directors, Tom Hancock minister of St Andrews Presbyterian Church, felt he was the only one that could stop Renaud and save the Lit and His any embarrassment.
Second, we don't know where Champlain is buried.....
Third, Gamache asks Beauvoir to go back to Three Pines and look to see if they missed anything. They did and Beauvoir uncovers who the real killer is. Ironically the killer, Old Mundin, who thought the Hermit had killed his father but in reality the Hermit was actually Old Mundin's father. So in trying to avenge his father's death, he killed his father instead. Olivier was reunited with Three Pines and things return as before.
Fourth, Paul Morin, small town cop from The Brutal Telling, is a hostage. Turns out, there's more to the story than just a cop being held at gunpoint and in the end a terrorist plot is uncovered but not before Gamache's team is ambushed with many being killed, including Morin. Gamache blames himself and comes to accept what happened.
Did I say great novel!!!
Bury Your Dead finds Gamache in Quebec City recovering from an investigation gone horribly wrong. Spending alone time in the Literary and Historical Society, a very real place that has now been added to my bucket list (visit http://www.morrin.org/en/), soon Gamache finds himself working with the local police to solve a murder.
This installment of Chief Inspector Gamache is different from the others as this one has four storylines intertwined throughout the novel: 1) who killed Renaud, 2) where is Champlain buried, 3) if Olivier didn't kill the old man in the previous investigation, who did, and 4) what is the investigation that went horribly wrong that has Gamache and Beauvoir on medical leave and the rest of his team being summoned to testify.
First, there's Augustin Renaud, a man on the quest of finding Samuel de Champlain (one of the men credited with founding Quebec and Canada and who's burial place is still a mystery) who is found murdered in the basement of the Lit and His Society. Gamache (who is on leave) accepts the offer to assist with the investigation and with the help of his mentor, Emile Comeau, finds papers written during Champlain's time. With the threat that Champlain could have been buried under the Lit and His Society, Gamache is able to uncover who the killer is. As a new member of the Lit and His Board of Directors, Tom Hancock minister of St Andrews Presbyterian Church, felt he was the only one that could stop Renaud and save the Lit and His any embarrassment.
Second, we don't know where Champlain is buried.....
Third, Gamache asks Beauvoir to go back to Three Pines and look to see if they missed anything. They did and Beauvoir uncovers who the real killer is. Ironically the killer, Old Mundin, who thought the Hermit had killed his father but in reality the Hermit was actually Old Mundin's father. So in trying to avenge his father's death, he killed his father instead. Olivier was reunited with Three Pines and things return as before.
Fourth, Paul Morin, small town cop from The Brutal Telling, is a hostage. Turns out, there's more to the story than just a cop being held at gunpoint and in the end a terrorist plot is uncovered but not before Gamache's team is ambushed with many being killed, including Morin. Gamache blames himself and comes to accept what happened.
Did I say great novel!!!