Still Life Pdf is a Crime Mystery Thriller novel By The Award winning Louise Penny. Still Life is the First book in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series and 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.
Still Life Book Summary
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec 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…
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About Louise Penny Author Of Still Life Pdf Book
LOUISE PENNY Author Of Still life Pdf is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (five times) and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. She lives in a small village south of Montréal.
Still Life pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- ASIN : 0312948557
- Publisher : St. Martin’s; Reprint edition (May 1, 2007)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780312948559
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312948559
- Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.14 x 0.89 x 6.84 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #350,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #34,811 in Mysteries (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.3 out of 5 stars 23,691 ratings
Still Life Book Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars A Trompe d’Oeille Feast for the Mind
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2022
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When I say feast, I mean it. Initially I was going to give four stars to punish the author for the publisher’s crime of not promoting this series in a more timely fashion, but that is pitifully petty. Amazon’s efforts, by making the first half available through Kindle free for the borrowing is a Herculean effort to call to my attention a better than Christie’s Poirot detective and it worked. Chief Inspector Gamage is a real person, unlike Poirot, although balding and thoroughly mustached, he makes mistakes, apologizes, loves good food and a good woman, and is an all around a thoughtful and good human being. It is surprising that his flaws are found to be so irritating to his comrades who love him. They expect him to be perfect, solve his cases instantly, adore them, walk on water and raise the victims from the dead. All in all heavy responsibilities for a mere human to carry.
I find Louise Penny better than Christie who is the most widely read detective author in history is saying A LOT, but not nearly enough. Chief Inspector Gamage is the head of homicide for the Quebeçois Sureté and for good reason he has a solve rate of nearly 100% and knows how to use his little gray cells to really successfully interpret what witnesses and guilty people tell him. In fact, all the information he receives, the reader is given. No secret line of evidence is hidden from the reader to make the game unfair. The suspense ratchets up higher and tighter for Gamage and the reader simultaneously, and is often relieved by genuinely warm and well-placed humor, keeping Ms. Penny firmly in control of the narrative. I’m happy to let her drive because the ride is fast and hard and there are many surprise curves and side roads taken to keep our attention on the road. Ms. Penny neither cheats nor takes rabbit-hole asides to make the reader feel dumb and/or dissatisfied. Her characters are deep, well-fleshed and even the villain is treated respectfully by the author. I adore the town Three Pines, a character in and of itself that would be grand to visit. I wouldn’t want to live there as only local people are murdered there, plus my French just might not pass and I understand from having been to France that errors in french are punished by Madame la Guillotine. If my old mystery buddies knew about Ms. Penny and Chief Inspector Gamage, we are going to take a little ride, approximately ten miles north of the USA Canadian border to Trois Pins (doesn’t Three Pines sound much more elegant in french? No surprise here what doesn’t sound more elegant in french, even curse words like Tabernacle?). Anyway, to the border we go. After all, there is no death penalty in Canada, and I may need it.
Merci, Louise Penny. Our relationship has only begun and I look forward to wherever it goes. There are clearly interesting sights and people to greet and adore.
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing story
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 22, 2022
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Louise Penny does a wonderful job of bringing the characters to life and pulling you into their story. This is a story of everyday life in a small village where a shocking murder reveals the good and bad of its residents.
4.0 out of 5 stars looking for a new “cozy” murder mystery series? Look no further!!!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 1, 2020
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I have used cozy mystery books as a sort of refuge since I was in middle school. I read most of Nancy Drew and then moved on to Jenny McGrady mysteries. From there I desperately sought out any kind of fireside mystery read I could find. I found a lot of stuff I did not like, but the ones I found, I have saved for rainy days. This long backstory all to say After finishing Still Life I realized that I just found a cozy mystery series with 16 books and I’m not sure I’m going to he able to hoarde these books away and savor them slowly the way I usually do!
Still Life takes place in a small town in Quebec Canada where a 76 year old woman dies in what first appears to be a hunting accident, but when no one comes forward to confess their mistake, it is evident that this was no hunting accident. This town is like that song in Beauty and the Beast where all the town people yell “bonjour” directly into Belle’s face while swapping loaves of bread for eggs. It is really that quaint and idyllic.
A suspicious murder in a small town means they need the very best! Enter Chief Inspector Armand Gamache! An experienced Detective, and truly the reason why this book felt so different from everything I have read in this genre.
Most of the mystery novels I have encountered are either about a first-time-on-the-job detective learning alongside a more experienced detective, or an experienced detective jaded by years of seeing the absolute worst in humankind.
Gamache is compassionate, empathetic and at times even emotional. He is a keen observer of people, but unlike the jaded detective trope, Gamache sees the worst in humankind but doesn’t allow that to dictate the way he treats people. He comes on the scene ready to listen with no preconceived biases. He just watches and listens until he gets to the bottom of things.
Because the leading narrative voice is mostly Gamache, the characterization of this novel has a beautiful uniqueness.
“The curtains struck him as odd, then he noticed she’d put the pattern on both sides, so it showed outside as well as in the home. He’d never seen that before, but he wasn’t surprised. Yolande Fontaine only really existed with an audience. She was like this novelty lamps that came on when you clapped your hands. She switched to life with applause, or the sharp clap of rebuke. Any reaction, as long as it was directed at her, was sufficient. Silence and solitude drained her of life”
There are loads of these little paragraphs where he and his equally observant partner see someone so completely as they are and sum them up in a couple poignant sentences.
If you are unfamiliar with “Cozy Mysteries” and are more used to suspenseful page turners, this might seem slow in pace. My favorite thing about cozy mysteries is the slow but carefully crafted characterizations and the way the murder is there, but is never the only theme the author has for readers. It comforted me, it entertained me, and I will be reading every book in this series!
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