Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery)

I love the fact that Louise Penny places her stories in Quebec and I liked the settings in this one. For my taste it was a few characters too many though and I couldn't get myself to care about them. I also had a hard time buying the motive or the murderer. Well. It was her first book, maybe I'll give another one a chance.

Still Life combines elements of a cozy (small intimate community, violence occurring off stage) with a police procedural (the detective is a genial detective from out of town). The community secrets are a bit too abstractly complicated for me to really love the mystery, but it's good enough to be interesting.

Look at that! I read a mystery. And I liked it. Inspector Gamache reminds me of Inspector Foyle. Which is a good thing.

I'm looking forward to reading more of these even though I'm unlikely to come across any talking cats.