About this title: Medicine Creek, Kansas. In a town where nothing changes, where Main Street is a two-block stretch of old and dusty businesses, a peculiar and ghastly murder has taken place. The body was mutilated and placed carefully in an elaborate tableau in the middle of the endless cornfields. Cool-eyed and smooth FBI Agent Pendergast arrives to discover a community in terror, a community he must turn inside out to find the killer who can only be one of them. Now, Pendergast must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four-generation Kansas family-before the killer strikes again.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 07/2003
ISBN-13:9780446531429ISBN:0446531421
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 448 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780446531429ISBN:0446531421
Description: Very Good. First printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Slight jacket wear with scuffing to edges. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2004-06
ISBN-13:9780446612760ISBN:0446612766
Description: New. New, unread, unused & in perfect condition with no damaged or missing pages. Collectible pre-release book with different cover. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780446612760ISBN:0446612766
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight binding. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 562 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Warner Books., New York.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780446612760ISBN:0446612766
Description: Very Good. ISBN 0446612766. Mystery. FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Paperback, 4x7 inches. First Paperback printing: July 2004-complete number line. ** flaws: light edge and corner wear. VG. read more
"Agenty Pendergast showes up again at an unusual place....mostly due to his interest in esoteric murders. The elasticity of his relationship with the FBI is a continual topic of conversation among those who know him.
I enjoyed this book also (it's the source of one of my favoriet quotes, especially if you can imagine it in Pendergast'a New Orleans accent. When asked why he always wears black he responds "I am partial to the color". Okay I said it was one of MY favorite quotes.) The wierdness of the events carries on the feeling of the books so far. I am a little disappointed in the way it gets tied up. But on the whole it doesn't really take away from the book."
"This book had a slower start than some of their other books. There weren't enough historical facts sprinkled into the story. Usually the stories have more culture in them but maybe since it took place in Kansas, they were low on culture. haha! However, it is the only books by the authors that actually creeped me out a little."
"Still Life with Crows, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: In Medicine Creek, Kansas, a town where little changes, where Main Street is a two-block stretch of dusty businesses, a peculiar and grisly murder has taken place. The body mutilated and placed carefully in an elaborate tableau in the middle of the endless cornfields. Now eagle-eyed and even-tempered FBI Agent Pendergast arrives to turn upside down this small community to find the killer who must be one of them. The killings are timed to coincide with the arrival of the Extension agent with genetically modified corn. Can there be a connection?
I was disappointed to walk away with this book on my last trip to the library, but the moment I started reading, my disappointment changed to interest and attention. I was spellbound. The language was poetic, the pacing delicate and well timed, and there was humor among the horror. I normally don't like this type of novel, but this was so well-written, I truly enjoyed it, despite its ghastly nature. The characters are engaging. And at times surprising. If you'd have told me I'd like this, I'd have laughed out loud-but I did. I was sorry for the book to end and am eager to read another. Also, I found out just now it is part of a series-I vaguely suspected it might be-but it hangs together as an individual unit so well that the fact that it's fourth in the series sis not diminish it readability! I'm going back tot eh library to get the FIRST one and read them all, maybe. We'll see how the next one is.
One thing about reading this type of book is that it makes me nervous walking around alone at night in Detroit.
And here's something more eerie: four dead birds have appeared in a certain spot where I walk every day, appeared, disappeared, and reappeared-I kid you not. It's under some low bushes where I have to duck into darkness to get through. Four different kids of dead birds, a sparrow, a blackbird, a wood thrush and a starling. Where's Pendergast when I need him?
One thing I don't like about this novel and others like it is the expendable people. I'm tempted to write my own novel about their lives. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child would probably consider ME one of the expendable people the could toss into a crevice in the cave or leave in a field surrounded by dead crows.
I didn't think they answered the question of why the tableaus very well-look at the example Job had of the 45. But that's just me. One tiny tweak in an otherwise super book. (But scary and horrifying!)
I also finished another book, but no time for more reviews right now."
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