This is one of those middle-of-the-road books for me. It had some interesting parts and characters, but also some things I didn't like much. It wasn't terrible, though. It was a mystery, not the worst I've read, but not great either. I like mysteries to either be really clever or surprise me. This didn't surprise me, but then it could've been a number of other characters that wouldn't have surprised me either. We read it for book club and we did have a good discussion about the title, "Still Life," and how some of the characters were living a still life, stuck in the past, and some weren't. That kind of played into the mystery as well and there were good references to it throughout, as well as the double meaning because the book centered a lot on art. I think if I hadn't been reading it for book club, I wasn't interested enough that I would have read the whole book, but I'm not sorry I did. I did enjoy the setting of the book and some of the ideas. I just think it was a bit flawed and not great or particularly memorable.