Still Life

Detective series hides secrets in the Canadian countryside

The opening book in the globally successful detective series by the nine-time winner of the prestigious Agatha Award.

Murder and the Canadian countryside, where people feel so safe that they don't lock the door at home, don't really go together. Especially when the victim is a distinguished old lady, most of the residents of Three Pines already had, that you can't even find on a map, I'm glad, and if there was a violent death in the woods, in a very surprising way.

But Armand Gamache, the chief inspector of Quebec's Sureté, who is called to the case with his team, knows that even the most idyllic places on earth have their own dangerous secrets. And that the key to them could be anywhere - perhaps in a strange, seemingly artlessly painted picture.