I reread Still Life this year and it holds up. It's a very good cozy mystery set in Three Pines, Quebec, where a local woman has been murdered. On a reread, knowing who the killer was made me look for the clues about them, and it was still a surprise

The summary of All the Devils Are Here made me want to read it, despite not having read any of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. My parents love the series, and my grandfather enjoyed it (though he did request a French-English slang dictionary), so I decided to give the series a try, starting with Still Life.

Armand Gamache was not what I was expecting, but in a good way. He's older than I expected, with more experience behind him. Still Life bounced back and forth between perspectives - Gamache and Clara, usually - sometimes confusingly. Overall, an excellent read. I did not see the ending plot twist coming, though I did see Jane having changed her will, the painting having something to do with why she was murdered, the connection between Timmer and Jane, and the connection between the painting and Timmer coming. I think it would hold up well to repeated readings, each re-read revealing more of just how the murder was carried out and Gamache figured it out.