Still Life with Crows

Douglas Preston · Lincoln Child

Jul 2003 · Pendergast series Book 4 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse -- either way, no one is safe.
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.
No one is safe.

Ratings and reviews

I was unaware that this book was part of a series when I picked it up years ago. Even without having read any prior Pendergast novels, it immediately captured & demanded my attention. I was hooked & have since read every novel they have written in this series, past & present.

Pendergast was indeed an interesting character. He's on vacation but he managed to stick his nose in a serial murder case. Like another Pendergast book I finished recently, I felt that Pendergast was on a side line while other characters (in this book, Corrie and Hazen) were the ones who solved the mystery.

This is book four of the Pendergast novels, and they keep getting better and better. All though the book can easily stand alone I strongly recommend reading the earlier novels first; Relic, Reliquary, and Cabinet of Curiosities. Cheers!

About the author

The thrillers of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child "stand head and shoulders above their rivals" (Publishers Weekly). Preston and Child's Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series and their recent novels include Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, Two Graves, and Gideon's Corpse. In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and Smithsonian magazines. Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published five novels of his own, including the huge bestseller Deep Storm.
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