Still Life
by Louise Penny
Taste attributes: mysterydetectivecrimeheavyintricateenclosedsolving the riddle/not as it seemscomplex relationshipfish out of water/culture clash
Boxlist takeA small-scale mystery, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.9 / 5
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About This Book
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods.
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- Author
- Louise Penny
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 377
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- Open Library
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