The Brutal Telling & Bury Your Dead

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Chaos is coming old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Oliviers Bistroincluding a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate he is dismayed to discover that Oliviers story is full of holes. Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin thats uncovered deep in the wilderness with priceless antiques and the dead mans blood? And what other secrets and layers of lies are buried in the seemingly idyllic village? Gamache follows a trail of clues and treasuresfrom first editions of Charlottes Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in itinto the woods and across the continent before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth and the final brutal telling. It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society--where an obsessive historians quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec Samuel de Champlain ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly four hundred years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Meanwhile Gamache is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. "It doesnt make sense " Oliviers partner writes every day. "He didnt do it you know." As past and present collide in this astonishing novel Gamache must relive a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead.