Still Life - Wyrms.de

eBook, 320 pages

English language

Published May 1, 2019 by Minotaur Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-4299-6723-5

(1 review)

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.

Still Life introduces not only an engaging series hero in Inspector Gamache, who commands his forces---and this series---with integrity and quiet courage, but also a winning and talented new writer of traditional mysteries in the person of Louise Penny.

2 editions

Kadomi reviewed Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery) by Louise Penny

Review of 'Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery)' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I love a good murder mystery, and I usually enjoy charming inspectors, like Hercule Poirot, and so the books about Chief Inspector Armand Gamache caught my eye. Unfortunately, it was probably the most boring book I have read this year.

An older lady is found shot by an arrow in the small community of Three Pines and Gamache comes to town to solve this homicide. We meet a quirky cast of characters that miraculously didn't have a single character I connected with. Gamache himself isn't charming or particularly smart, I didn't care for his staffers. Nothing about this mystery was exciting in any shape or form. I usually fell asleep within 2-5 pages of reading. Only by sheer force of will did I push through this book to find out whodunnit. That finale left me about as excited as the rest of the book. Giving this series a hard pass.

Subjects

Police
Victims of violent crimes
Fiction