Yes, viewers of mysteries and thrillers like tightly-plotted narratives, clever red herrings, and a certain element of surprise. And you should always strive to weave as many of these aspects into your whodunit or crime story as possible. But these factors are not what makes a mystery - any mystery - memorable. With Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Lesley Vickerage, Paul Hickey. British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Small). Louise Penny's first Three Pines mystery, Still Life, won the Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada and the New Blood Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association.In the United States, it received the Dilys Award for the book that the members of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association most enjoyed selling over the past year. Montalbano must decipher the clues once more and get to the bottom of a crime that was committed 50 years in the past. The characters get deeper and the mystery within a mystery makes this novel even better than the first. In Other Media. Since 1999 there has been television movies of the Inspector Montalbano adventures being produced in Italy Bestseller Penny