Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, Book 1, (Paperback)

from bookappeal

I highly recommend the audio version of this book. The narrator does a wonderful job with different voices and French words. This book takes a standard murder plot and injects realistic characters with their own dark secrets that may or may not relate to the murder. Penny describes Three Pines so...

from m4marya

I love to solve puzzles, and figure out problems, but when it comes to mystery novels I love to be surprised. There is nothing as boring as finding out who the killer is on the page 4 three pages after the murder. I want the story to unfold for me, to take me so far away from the murder that I fo...

from alanna1122

I really really enjoyed this mystery. It was everything I like a mystery to be. Gentle(not too graphic), good interesting characters - terrific location. I would have given it 5 stars but I was able to guess "whodunit'' pretty early on due to a carefully placed clue that I picked up on. Of course...

from phebj

I decided to read this book after seeing several positive reviews of it on LT. It's what is aptly called a "village cozy" murder mystery and is set in a small town called Three Pines near Montreal during the fall and early winter months of the year. The author does a fantastic job of making you f...

from gypsysmom

Louise Penny made an intriguing start with this book. I will definitely be reading more of the series. I thought there were a few first book wobbles but they weren't enough to deter me from reading. The village of Three Pines is a small, mostly English town in the Eastern Townships south of Montr...