num_pages: 312
description: The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...
language: English
title: Still Life
titlecomplete: Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
characters: Suzanne Belanger-Croft, Matthew Croft, Chief Inspector Gamache, Bernard Malenfant, Michel Brebeuf, Jane Neal, Jean Guy Beauvoir, Frederica Potter, Myrna Landers, Dr. Sharon Harris, Isabelle Lacoste, Gabriel Dubeau, Peter Morrow, Ruth Zardo, Ben Hadley, Norman Stickley, Olivier Brulé, Yolande Fontaine, Philippe Croft, Clara Morrow, Yvette Nichol, Andre Malenfant
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Canada, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Adult, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 236912
places: Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Three Pines, Quebec, Cambridge, England, Canada, Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec), England, Quebec (Québec), Cambridgeshire, England
series: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Arthur Ellis Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award
publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur