BURY YOUR DEAD
ALSO BY LOUISE PENNY
LOUISE PENNY
BURY YOUR DEAD
MINOTAUR BOOKS
NEW YORK
Table of Contents
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty–One
Chapter Twenty–Two
Chapter Twenty–Three
Chapter Twenty–Four
Chapter Twenty–Five
Chapter Twenty–Six
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
BURY YOUR DEAD. Copyright © 2010 by Three Pines Creations, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Grateful acknowledgment is given for permission to reprint the following:
“Morning in the Burned House” by Margaret Atwood © 1995.
Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Used with permission of the publisher.
“Vapour Trails” by Marylyn Plessner © 2000.
Published by Stephen Jarislowsky. Used with permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Penny, Louise.
Bury your dead : a Chief Inspector Gamache novel / Louise Penny. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-37704-5
1. Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—Québec (Province)—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Québec (Province)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.P464B87 2010b
813'.6—dc22
2010026415
First Edition: October 2010
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Michael and I spent a magical month in Quebec City researching
Much of the action in
I also need to make clear that I have met the Chief Archeologist of Québec many times and he is charming, helpful and gracious. Not at all like my fictional Chief Archeologist.
