--- title: Bury Your Dead: The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books description: Find out why 'Bury Your Dead' by Louise Penny made the list. canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-mystery-thriller-books/6309230/bury-your-dead/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-10-03T11:56:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:20:47.297Z og:title: Bury Your Dead: The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books og:description: Here’s why it made the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-mystery-thriller-books/6309230/bury-your-dead/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0975d7ae84e8cbb1/698a407bdb298761f12695a7/BuryYourDead.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bury Your Dead: The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bury Your Dead: The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books twitter:description: Here’s why it made the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0975d7ae84e8cbb1/698a407bdb298761f12695a7/BuryYourDead.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 03, 2023 # Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  The platonic ideal of a Louise Penny reading experience is under a blanket by the fire on a snowy day, nibbling a sandwich of brie, fig jam, and prosciutto on a crusty baguette. Penny’s _Three Pines_ mysteries are appealingly cozy, never short on sumptuous descriptions of meals, and populated by a cast of charming oddballs in the fictional Canadian town, including a foulmouthed elderly poet with a pet duck, a psychologist turned bookstore owner, and Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the lead detective in each tale. In 2010’s _Bury Your Dead,_ the sixth Chief Inspector Gamache book, the detective is haunted by a fatal error he made in a previous mission as he tries to solve the murder of a historian in Québec City, all while sending his second-in-command back to Three Pines to reinvestigate a murder case that tangled up one of the town’s beloved bistro owners. “I created characters whose company I would enjoy, I created a main character who I would marry, I created a village I would love to live in,” Penny [told TIME](https://time.com/3982217/louise-penny-mystery-author-interview/) in 2015\. Lucky for all the readers who get to spend time with them, too, in _Bury Your Dead_ and the 17 other books in the _Three Pines_ series. —_Tessa Berenson Rogers_ **Buy Now:** _Bury Your Dead_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780312626907) | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/48qLs3U) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-mystery-thriller-books/6309230/bury-your-dead/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-mystery-thriller-books/6309230/bury-your-dead/"},"headline":"Bury Your Dead","datePublished":"2023-10-03T11:56:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:20:47.297Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-mystery-thriller-books/6309230/bury-your-dead/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0975d7ae84e8cbb1/698a407bdb298761f12695a7/BuryYourDead.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0975d7ae84e8cbb1/698a407bdb298761f12695a7/BuryYourDead.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-mystery-thriller-books/6309230/bury-your-dead/","name":"Bury Your Dead"}}]}] ```