Let’s start at the beginning.

I’ve had an influx of audiobooks being available lately and am winding down to my last one this month. So far this year I’ve listened to 15 audiobooks and read two books – off to a much higher better start this year over last year already!

I have previously written about Chief Inspector Gamache, but I am now going to go back in time. You might remember that I had listened to what is the twelve book in a series of 13 books currently that review and reveal the many adventures of Gamache, but how did I not start at the real beginning?

A Great Reckoning was suggested to me and I just ran with it. Now to the real start of his stories: Still Life.

The one thing I am happy for not starting at the beginning is that I’ve already created the images of what I’d like to believe the characters look like. So now, I may finally be starting properly, but it’s almost as if I’m just going back to visit Three Pines!

I’m familiar with the characters and their quirks and get to add a bit more and hold a different appreciation for them. I’m but a quarter into it, but I can only imagine what more I’ll come to learn about each character, their back story and how they all fit in with the murder.

Some of these characters one really begins to have a love and bias for; you want justice should anything bad befall them and you want success even when they don’t believe in it themselves! They even hold more reverence for one another than they do for themselves at times, which gives their friendship an even stronger bond.

Someone who reads or watches murder mysteries may think they have a good idea of what is going on or what is to happen, but were they put in the same situations, it might prove different. If I found a body, I do not think my first thought would immediately gravitate towards murder at all, but once you know you need to know more.

Currently in the book, there is a bit of turmoil between the citizens of the small town and their efforts to figure out what is going on seems to be more out of curiosity and for the sake of gossip more so than resolution, but I have a feeling that these people will really need to work hand in hand to solve the crime!

For a town that used to feel safe enough to never lock their doors, you’d think they would want to keep it that way, wouldn’t you?