Still Life
Louise Penny, 2005
A body in the woods of a village so small it has no police force, and a detective who thinks wisdom starts with admitting you're wrong.
Louise Penny
Penny spent nearly twenty years as a CBC radio journalist before writing Still Life; it won the CWA New Blood Dagger and the Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel.
Feels like morality, curiosity and serenity.
Four short sentences, and not one of them comes easily.
There are four things that lead to wisdom. You ready for them?’She nodded, wondering when the police work would begin."They are four sentences we learn to say, and mean." Gamache held up his hand as a fist and raised a finger with each point. "I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was wrong’. Books by Louise Penny
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