2023/115: Still Life — Louise Penny

2023/115: Still Life — Louise Penny

‘The funny thing about murder is that the act is often committed decades before the actual action. Something happens, and it leads, inexorably, to death many years later. A bad seed is planted. [p. 169]

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec, accompanied by his team of investigators, has been called to idyllic Three Pines to investigate the death of an elderly local artist. Jane Neal was about to reveal her art -- within her house as well as in an exhibition -- when she was found dead in the woods, killed by an arrow. The consensus in Three Pines is that it was a tragic hunting accident, but Gamache is not convinced: he initiates a murder investigation.

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