Still Life - Louise Penny

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Title: Still Life (Inspector Gamache #1)
Author: Louise Penny
Genre: Crime
Rating: 3/5
# pages: Audiobook ~10hrs
Date read: April, 2022

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Sûreté du Québec to a small village in the Eastern Townships.

Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...


Not my usual fare (I tend to stay away from detective novels), but it came highly recommended and I liked it. It was such a relief to read a crime novel where the emphasis was on solving the case, and not on how much blood and gore was encountered along the way.

I liked inspector Gamache and the citizens of Three Pines. There was a thread or two left hanging, but they might be picked up in a later book.