He visits the Croft family later in the day and finds potentially damning evidence, which he sends to a lab for analysis. Hoping to turn up new leads, Gamache calls a community meeting, where he learns that Matthew Croft was once caught hunting illegally near the area where Jane died. Gamache learns that Jane never allowed anyone to go beyond the kitchen in her home. Yolande takes legal action to prevent the police from entering Jane’s home. They also meet with Peter and Clara Morrow, Jane’s friends and next-door neighbors, as well as Yolande Fontaine, Jane’s niece and next of kin, who was not on good terms with Jane. Ben’s mother, Timmer, who died about a month before Jane, was a friend of Jane’s. Gamache and his team investigate the local archery club owned by Ben Hadley, the man who discovered Jane’s body. Examining the crime scene, they find evidence that Jane was killed by an arrow in a possible hunting accident. He is accompanied by his second in command, Jean Guy Beauvoir, as well as a recently certified agent, Yvette Nichol, who is eager to impress but fails to integrate with Gamache’s team. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, homicide investigator for the Sûreté du Québec, leads the investigation. Jane is found dead in the woods on Thanksgiving Sunday, just two days after deciding to submit her artwork for an exhibition for the first time ever. The plot of Still Life centers on an official investigation following the death of Jane Neal, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who lived in the small town of Three Pines in Quebec, Canada.

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