Bury Your Dead
- Published
- 28 September 2010
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN-13
- 9781445854496
- Type
- novel
About this book
Bury Your Dead (2010) directly continues the story begun in The Brutal Telling, one of several entries in the series that read as a direct sequel rather than a self-contained case. The sixth Gamache novel, it runs 480 pages and comes before A Trick of the Light.
Key facts about Bury Your Dead
Louise Penny wrote Bury Your Dead, a novel on our list. It has been out since 28 September 2010. The book has 480 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781445854496 to find the main one.
Bury Your Dead is book 6 of 20 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. The series has 20 published books. However, the series starts with Still Life (2005). The Black Wolf is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 October 2025.
That series sits on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Last Mandarin is the latest published Louise Penny book on file, from 12 May 2026.
About Louise Penny
Louise Penny is a Canadian author best known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, a long-running literary mystery series set largely in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines, where a tight-knit cast of eccentric locals recurs across cases investigated by the thoughtful, morally grounded Sûreté du Québec inspector Gamache. See every Louise Penny book in order.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Bury Your Dead is book 6 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows The Brutal Telling. It is followed by A Trick of the Light. See the full Chief Inspector Armand Gamache reading order.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is the rarest thing in crime fiction: a genuinely good man. Courtly, patient, fluent in poetry and human weakness, he teaches his agents four sentences that lead to wisdom — I was wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know. I need help. — and solves murders not by trickery but by listening until people reveal themselves. His cases keep returning him to Three Pines, a village south of Montreal that appears on no map, where croissants and cafe au lait at Olivier's bistro…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429957434
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781445854496