Jane Neal, retired teacher, private artist, and loving friend, is not the type of woman to be murdered, even an accidental hunting death seems unlikely, but murder in the form of a hunting arrow straight through the chest is exactly how she dies. The quiet village of Three Pines simply can't imagine anyone wanting to harm Miss Neal and believing it is someone they know in the village is beyond acknowledgement, until Chief Inspector Armand Gamache begins to pry into their lives and their secrets.
Loaded with suspense, Still Life, oozes tension. The depth of the forest, the inflection of each voice, and the potential significance of a scrap of conversation, infuse the novel, teasing the perfect puzzle piece forward. One, that in the end, does not fit.
Crafted so carefully and perfectly, it is hard to imagine the possibility of future Armand Gamache novels measuring up.
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