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Bury Your Dead Louise Penny 14510K 2023-08-31

"Ridiculous," said the orneryburied under the Old Homestead? We all knoas either buried in the chapel, which burned, or in the cemetery, not hundreds of yards away in a field"

"Chauenot," said Émile, his voice barely audible "A Protestant" He held out the book A bible

"But that’s ireement Hands snatched at the bible and the uproar subsided as it made the rounds and the men saw the evidence

Samuel de Chainal Huguenot bible, a rare find Most had been destroyed in the various Inquisitions, burned along with their owners It was a dangerous book, to the church and to whoever possessed it

Champlain , and to have been buried with it

The roo of the fire Ga it in his satchel along with Chiniquy’s journal he said, "Excusez-hts, and left the room

Outside he took the call and noticed there’d been twenty-seven calls frohter Annie Froent Isabelle Lacoste Froues, and fro in

"Bonjour, Jean-Guy What’s happened?"

"Chief, where’ve you been?"

"In a one viral on the Internet I just heard about it from Peter Morrow, then Lacoste called and a few friends More calls are co in I haven’t seen it yet"

"What is it?" But even as he asked he could guess, and felt a sickening feeling in his stomach

"It’s from the tapes, the ones recorded at the raid"

Everyone had worn tiny carated into their headsets, to record what happened Investigators had long realized a verbal debrief wasn’t enough Even well-intentioned cops would forget details, especially in the heat of the s went badly, as they often did, cops could stop being "well intentioned" and start lying

This h not impossible

Each camera shohat each officer saw, and what each officer did, and what each officer said And, like any film, it could be edited

"Chief?" Beauvoir asked

"I see" He felt like Beauvoir sounded Upset, suddenly exhausted, bewildered that anyone would do this and that anyone would want to see such a thing It was a violation, especially for the families His officers’ families