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Starred Review. Canadian Penny's terrific first novel, which was the runner-up for the CWA's Debut Dagger Award in 2004, introduces Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. When the body of Jane Neal, a middle-aged artist, is found near a woodland trail used by deer hunters outside the village of Three Pines, it appears she's the victim of a hunting accident. Summoned to the scene, Gamache, an appealingly competent senior homicide investigator, soon determines that the woman was most likely murdered. Like a virtuoso, Penny plays a complex variation on the theme of the clue hidden in plain sight. She deftly uses the bilingual, bicultural aspect of Quebecois life as well as arcane aspects of archery and art to deepen her narrative. Memorable characters include Jane; Jane's shallow niece, Yolande; and a delightful gay couple, Olivier and Gabri. Filled with unexpected insights, this winning traditional mystery sets a solid foundation for future entries in the series. (July)
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*Starred Review* The residents of a tiny Canadian village called Three Pines are shocked when the body of Miss Jane Neal is found in the woods. Miss Neal, the village's retired schoolteacher and a talented amateur artist, has been a good friend to most of the townsfolk, so her loss is keenly felt. At first, her death appears to be a tragic accident--it's deer-hunting season, and it looks a stray hunter's arrow killed her. But some folks are suspicious, and Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Montreal Surete is called in to investigate. Accompanying Gamache are his loyal assistant Beauvoir and Yvette Nichol, a new addition to Gamache's team. The trio soon finds that the seemingly peaceful, friendly village hides dark secrets. The truth is both bizarre and shocking, even to the jaded Gamache and his team. This is a real gem of a book that slowly draws the reader into a beautifully told, lyrically written story of love, life, friendship, and tragedy. And it's a pretty darn good mystery too. This belongs in the same league with such other outstanding Canadian mysteries as Eric Wright's Charlie Salter series. Emily Melton
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5.0étoiles sur 5 wonderful novel, Aoû 1 2007
Par Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Still Life (Paperback)
This novel is written with the bilingual, bicultural aspect of the Québécois life in mind. It is narrated with emotions and very delightful; the characters have depth and are compassionate. This mystery is very engaging and Inspector Gamache is destined for stardom....can't wait to read the next novel in this series.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Still Life by Louise Penny, Juil 23 2006
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A favourite elder citizen of a Quebec small town is found dead on Canadian Thanksgiving. It is up to Chief Inspector Armand Gamache to discover whether her death was an over-zealous hunter, or something more sinister. This debut novel is well written and moves along very quickly and logically without much extraneous violence. The ending, in my opinion, was a bit lame but up to that point, I really enjoyed this novel. I look forward to this writer's next book.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Turgid and muddled with some promise...maybe, Déc 24 2009
This review is from: Still Life (Paperback)
I suspect Louise Panny might be a fan of Georges Simenon. The similarities are too obvious. Like Maigret, Gamache is thoughtful, slow moving, sensitive, aware of his surroundings and the people in them; and he has a wife he adores, who stays in the background cooking delicious French dishes -- in Madame Maigret's case, old world cuisine. Similarities end there.
The differences between Simenon's writing and Ms. Penny's are just as clear. Simenon's writing is crisp, fresh and unencumbered - never mired in self-congratulatory wordiness, as it is in Penny's. You simply glide right into Inspector Maigret's Paris and follow him like a devoted acolyte, all the while staying close to him and learning about life, tolerance, and the human condition. Simenon's characters, settings and story are complete and rich. Penny's settings are very good at times, but her novel is cluttered with too many clichéd characters and a muddled storyline.
I enjoyed the first few pages of this book but as I read on, the novel became weighted down with turgid writing that didn't allow me to move smoothly through the story. The writer stopped my "suspension of disbelief" so often to hit me repeatedly over the head with the her "deep thoughts" and those of her characters that I had a headache. In fact, she was so busy banging her literary drum, she forgot to tell a good clear clean story. Some readers may see Penny's musings as cerebral and even literary, but to me, they grew into a leaning tower of psycho-babble that became harder and harder to climb, with its added and strange mix of "new age" thinking and contrived female mysticism.
I did wonder many times if the self-involved, smug citizens of Three Pines had ever paid any real attention to each other in the years they'd been together. If they had, they'd have known right away who the murderer was, and Gamache would have been left in Montreal to search out a less obvious criminal. The reason for the murder is murky and leaves one shaking one's head at the author's determination to make it seem a believable motive. The ending is farcical.
Besides Gamache, who is at least a decent bloke from Montreal (as is his long time partner - can't remember his name off-hand, but he is just a cardboard character anyway), one really excellent character is Nichol, the young probationary detective, whose blind ambition is just that - completely blind. She stands out so far above the others she doesn't belong in the same world as the overexcited characters of Three Pines.
Questions abound, but most don't get answered. Did no one ever think to peek beyond a certain kitchen door? Surely these people would have discovered the victim's secret long before the story began. There are few secrets in small towns. But that would have put paid to the entire story, right? Do I really want to meet these Three Pines folk again with all their pseudo-jolly group meals, literary puns, nasty asides presented as loving humour, or their selfish, angst-filled and self-important artistry? I'm not sure...
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