Bury Your Dead
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 6 by Louise Penny, 2010, Audiobook narrated by Ralph Cosham released in 2010, Macmillan Audio
I was really surprised by this book as I had pretty much trashed Book 5, The Brutal Telling, in my review. Book 5 didn’t seem to have any life to it; it didn’t have any plot twists and ended with a fairly straightforward solution to that murder mystery. Well, I should have hung on to my thoughts as there is more to it in Book 6. I didn’t have any way to predict that, however. Just make sure you have read or listened to Book 5 before you try Book 6 as there is a lot of information in the prior book that is picked up in this one.
Book 6 has multiple plots, all running at the same time. It also has a lot of history, mostly associated with Samuel Champlain, the founder of Quebec, as well as the battle of Quebec. Gamache spends most of the novel located in Quebec City, which is even more interesting to me as I have visited the city many times.
Ralph Cosham gets better and better narrating these novels. I can visualize each of the individual characters while listening to him, and it’s hard to believe that it’s just one reader doing them all.
I made the statement in my review of Book 5 that I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue listening to more of the series. I am in the process of loading four more of the audiobooks in this series on my phone. If I get through those, I will have listened to ten of the nineteen books in the series. By the time I get to nineteen, however, I suppose that Louise Penny will write some more.
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