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Subscribe for $3 a Month. The plot of Still Life centers on an official investigation following the death of Jane Neal, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who lived in the small town of Three Pines in Quebec, Canada. Jane is found dead in the woods on Thanksgiving Sunday, just two days after deciding to submit her artwork for an exhibition for ...
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I recently heard Louise Penny interviewed by her publisher, and, knowing Louise now, it came as a surprise to hear her say she identified with Agent Yvette Nichol. However, here’s the final paragraph in the Acknowledgements in Still Life. “I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would di...
Welcome to a small village not far from Quebec, Three Pines. It’s fall in an idyllic village with a used bookstore, a bistro with wonderful homemade food, a bakery, a Bed and Breakfast, and a general store. It’s also the village where the Chief Inspector of Homicide for the Sûreté du Quebec, Armand Gamache, is called when Miss Jane Neal is found de...
Ruth Zardo quotes poet W.H. Auden. “Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
Louise Penny has said she modeled Armand Gamache on her husband. How do you picture Gamache?Other than Armand Gamache, who is your favorite character in the first half of the book? Why?People in this book have secrets, even Gamache. What secrets surprised you?What is your reaction to Agent Nichol’s behavior?May 21, 2019 · The Annotated Three Pines: Still Life. Annotated Three. From Pg. 1: Miss Jane Neal met her maker in the early morning mist of Thanksgiving Sunday. It was pretty much a surprise all round. Miss Neal’s was not a natural death, unless you’re of the belief everything happens as it’s supposed to. If so, for her seventy-six years Jane Neal had ...
Jan 5, 2024 · The dead body of 76-year-old Jane Neal has really created chaos around the village. Ben Hadley, a friend and neighbor of Jane, has found her in the snow and called the police. Gamache rushes to the scene with Nichol, a trainee. His second officer, Beauvoir, fills him in the case. Jane was shot with an arrow. There is an opening and exit wound.
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it’s a tragic ...
Apr 2, 2020 · Review: Still Life. Still Life (Chief Inspector Gamache #1), Louise Penny. New York: Minotaur Books, 2005. Summary: The suspicious death of Jane Neal a day after her painting is accepted into an art show brings Gamache and his team to Three Pines, and to the grim conclusion that someone in this small community is a murderer.
Oct 3, 2005 · Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it’s a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than ...
