Bury Your Dead (novel)

{{Short description|Canadian mystery novel}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Bury Your Dead

| image = Bury Your Dead (book).jpg

| author = Louise Penny

| genre = Mystery fiction, Crime

| published = 2010

| publisher = Minotaur Books

| isbn = 978-0-312-37704-5

| alt = Bury Your Dead

| pages = 371

| website = {{URL|http://www.louisepenny.com/books.htm|Bury Your Dead}}

| preceded_by = The Brutal Telling

| followed_by = A Trick of the Light (novel)

| awards = Anthony Award for Best Novel (2011)

}}

Bury Your Dead is a book written by Louise Penny{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2WBBS9AhWMC |title=Bury Your Dead |last=Penny |first=Louise |date=2010-09-28 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9780748122493}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.louisepenny.com/books.htm|title=Louise Penny Author - Official site|website=www.louisepenny.com|access-date=2017-03-27}} and published by Minotaur Books{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-37704-5|title=Fiction Book Review: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny |magazine=Publishers Weekly |access-date=2017-03-27}} (an imprint of St. Martin's Press,{{Cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bury-your-dead-louise-penny/1025773194|title=Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Gamache Series #6)|last=Noble|first=Barnes &|website=Barnes & Noble|access-date=2017-03-27}} owned by Macmillan Publishers{{Cite news|url=http://us.macmillan.com/buryyourdead/louisepenny/9780312626907/|title=Bury Your Dead {{!}} Louise Penny {{!}} Macmillan|work=US Macmillan|access-date=2017-03-27}}) on 28 September 2010. This novel won the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2011.{{Cite news |url=http://www.bouchercon.com/anthony-awards/winners-and-nominees/|title=Winners and Nominees |date=2015-08-10 |work=Bouchercon |access-date=2017-03-27|archive-date=2020-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009234527/http://www.bouchercon.com/anthony-awards/winners-and-nominees/ |url-status=dead}} It is the sixth mystery novel featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and set in Quebec.

Plot summary

{{main|Chief Inspector Armand Gamache}}

Between The Brutal Telling and Bury Your Dead, there was a shooting of one of the agents in the homicide division (which is told in flashbacks). While Gamache is doing research in Quebec City, a body is found in the sub-basement of a library. Gamache becomes a consultant of the investigation. Meanwhile, the murder investigated in The Brutal Telling is investigated further.

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