![]() ![]() It seems like pop culture is full of hard-edged detectives who would never allow themselves to care for the victims or to grant themselves a moment to imagine what life had been like for that person before they were murdered. This stood out to me because we, as readers and viewers, rarely get to see a detective acknowledge their human emotions or allow themselves a moment of grief for the violent loss of life. “He always felt a pang when looking at the hands of the newly dead, imagining all the objects and people those hands had held. Gamache spends some time observing her body, but what stood out to me in this passage is the emotional look we are given at Gamache as he views the deceased’s hands. When we first meet Gamache, he examines the body of Jane Neal, an older woman who lived in Three Pines and was killed in the woods surrounding the small town. ![]() Most of all, he cared about people–not just the people he helped in his cases, but the people on his team as well. Gamache isn’t afraid to follow his own moral code, even if that means going against authority. He’s softer than Sherlock Holmes, though just as observant. He’s intelligent but caring, driven, but not arrogant. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the protagonist in Louise Penny’s debut novel Still Life, is a different breed of detective, unlike most detectives I saw on television and movies or read about in other mystery novels. ![]()
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