Bury Your Dead
by:
Louise Penny (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410431721 (141043172X)
Publish date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 651
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Canada
Series: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache (#6)
Ugh. So this book ticked me off. There were two major plots going on in this book that did not work well together at all. Spoilers for events in book #5. At the end of book #5, "The Brutal Telling" Olivier is charged with manslaughter when all signs points to him as the murderer of a hermit that...
Have you ever finished a book and just wandered about aimlessly, unable to settle at doing anything, unable to concentrate because you're just busy feeling? That's how I've felt for the past hour or thereabouts. Since I finished Bury Your Dead. Moonlight Murder was right. It was indeed a deva...
Maybe I'm still numb from The Brutal Telling. Maybe I'm tired of pivotal past events being fed to me in disjointed bits and pieces. Maybe those pivotal past events needed their own book to do them justice. Whatever the reason, I just did not connect to this book on anywhere near the same emotional l...
This book. This book is the reason to read the five books that preceded it. Gamache has been called to a dead body in the basement of the Literary and Historical Society, the repository of English speaking history in old Quebec. He begins to question the ending and conviction at the end of the bru...
Having grown up in Canada, I think I most appreciated Penny's Quebec City setting and mood. Her descriptions of walking outdoors in frigid temperatures, having one's soul exposed to the brittle elements, are spot on. My first Penny novel; won't be my last.
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