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Inspector Gamache is in Quebec City, dealing with the wounds, both mental and physical, he suffered during a recent hostage situation. During the final moments of a mission going very wrong, several people are killed, including the hostage. Gamache and Beauvoir are both injured. Gamache sends Beauvoir back to Three Pines on a mission that Beauvoir believes to be wrong and a waste of time. Gamache wants him to reconsider the case against Olivier, recently convicted of killing the Hermit, Jakob. Olivier's partner, Gabi, refuses to believe that Olivier killed Jakob. Gamache tells Beauvoir to look at the case again, and assume that it wasn't Olivier. Who else could it have been? Gamache finds himself involved in a murder case, in spite of himself. He has been doing a lot of reading at the Literary and Historical Society, a bulwark of English-ness in a city of French. A man is found murdered in the basement, a man known throughout Quebec as a man with a mission: to find Samuel de Champlain's body. Does he think it is buried under the LHS? While investigating this murder, Gamache finds himself caught up in the quest for Champlain's grave, and some of the other mysteries surrounding this man. Penny has written another wonderful police procedural, and at the same time has given the reader another character-driven mystery of stellar proportions. Gamache and Beauvoir are both flawed, although in Beauvoir the flaws are much closer to the surface. Penny "grows" both these men in ways that fit their characters and situations, all the while telling a superb story. THE BRUTAL TELLING took fans of Three Pines in a direction that was not pleasant; BURY YOUR DEAD will make some readers happier, although it still shows that Three Pines is not the idyllic village that it at first seems to be. Penny continues to write powerful, compelling, elegant books with complex stories at the heart of it all. § P.J. Coldren lives in northern lower Michigan where she reads and reviews widely across the mystery genre when she isn't working in her local hospital pharmacy.
Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, August 2010
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