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Book Review of Still Life (Chief Inspector Gamache, Bk 1)

Still Life (Chief Inspector Gamache, Bk 1)
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With this award-winning first novel, Louise Penny introduces an engaging hero in Inspector Gamache, who commands his forcesand this serieswith power, ingenuity, and charm.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montréal and yet a world away. Jane Neal, a long-time resident of Three Pines, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain its a tragic hunting accident and nothing more but Gamache smells something foul this holiday seasonand is soon certain that Jane died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.