Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery)

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.