Louise Penny is an amazing writer. Her stories are thought provoking and intricately plotted. They are also filled with a wonderful sense of place and quirky characters in addition to the reappearing police force led by Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec. I also enjoy her knack for dialog and word play. Bury Your Dead, the 6th in her series, opens with Gamache in Quebec City recovering from physical and psychological injuries he received in a recent case. He is doing research at the Literary and Historical Society Library when a dead body is found in the basement. He reluctantly agrees to help the local police investigate the case. Even as Gamache works on this current case, his mind is drawn to the mistakes he feels he made in his last case. The events of this tragedy unfold slowly throughout the book along with a reexamination of a closed case and an ongoing search for the body of Samuel de Champlain. The interactions of the city’s English citizens and Francophiles add to the plot.
Allison
