Still Life (Three Pines Mysteries), Louise Penny; St. Martin's Minotaur

““Miss Jane Neal met her maker in the early morning mist of Thanksgiving Sunday. It was pretty much a surprise all round.” Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team are called in to investigate a suspicious death that the locals in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines are sure is just a tragic hunting accident. “

Liz’s Note: This lovely Canadian mystery was the winner of the New Blood Dagger in Britain and the Arthur Ellis Award in Canada for best first crime novel. Penny has created some brilliant characters, and readers will be happy to meet up with them again in subsequent volumes of this series, which gets better with each book.