Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 1
Still Life
- Published
- 1 July 2005
- Pages
- 377
- ISBN-13
- 9780751547382
- Type
- novel
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About this book
Still Life (2005) opens the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, introducing the courtly, patient Surete du Quebec detective and the fictional village of Three Pines that will draw him back for murder after murder over the next twenty books. At 377 pages, it sets up the long game Louise Penny plays across the series: cases solved by listening rather than trickery.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Still Life is book 1 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It is followed by A Fatal Grace. See the full Chief Inspector Armand Gamache reading order.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is the rarest thing in crime fiction: a genuinely good man. Courtly, patient, fluent in poetry and human weakness, he teaches his agents four sentences that lead to wisdom — I was wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know. I need help. — and solves murders not by trickery but by listening until people reveal themselves. His cases keep returning him to Three Pines, a village south of Montreal that appears on no map, where croissants and cafe au lait at Olivier's bistro…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751561630
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780755328895
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751547382