The Beautiful Mystery (53 page)
Still Life
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LOUISE PENNY
is the
New York Times
and
Globe and Mail
bestselling author of seven previous novels featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Her debut,
Still Life,
won the John Creasey Dagger and the Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys Awards, and was named one of the five Mystery/Crime Novels of the Decade by
Deadly Pleasures
magazine. Penny was the first author to win the Agatha Award for Best Novel four times—for
A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, The Brutal Telling
(which also received the Anthony Award for Best Novel), and
Bury Your Dead
(which also won the Dilys, Arthur Ellis, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero Awards). Her most recent novel,
A Trick of the Light,
received an Independent Literary Award and was named one of the Best Crime Novels of 2011 by
The New York Times, The Globe and Mail,
and
Publishers Weekly
. Louise lives with her husband, Michael, in a small village south of Montréal.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY.
Copyright © 2012 by Three Pines Creations, Inc. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
Cover photograph by Bryan Carnathan
e-ISBN 9781250015273
First Edition: September 2012