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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Still Life

Thanks to all the ladies in my library reading group for recommending Louise Penny's magical Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series.  I followed their advice and started with the first book in this series, Still Life (#427).  Now I know exactly what my friends meant when they told me that the residents of the Quebec village of Three Pines were people you'd want to invite over for dinner.

When elderly retired school teacher Jane Neal is found dead in the woods where she customarily walked her dog Lucy, no one at first can image that her death was not accidental.  But when Chief Inspector Gamache is called in to investigate with his team from the Montreal Surete Office (Three Pines isn't large enough to have its own police force.) it's determined that Jane's death was a deliberate act.  How to catch a killer who is probably one of the village's own?  That's the puzzle Gamache will struggle to solve, as long held secrets are finally brought to light.

If you're not already a fan of Louise Penny's, go buy this book immediately; you'll become a true believer in her talents, too.

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