Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Still Life With Crows

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Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child ☻☻☻☻☺

Review by Don Miller

Setting: Small town Kansas

A murder victim is discovered in a cornfield outside of Medicine Creek, Kansas---a quiet rural community with virtually no violent crime. Redneck sheriff Dent Hazen begins his investigation and immediately declares the crime was committed by an outsider. He is particularly irritated when FBI Special Agent Pendergast shows up uninvited to offer his assistance.

Pendergast is frequently the main character in Preston/Child books and is an engaging character. He is sophisticated, intellectual, charming, eccentric and always on vacation.
To further aggravate his relationship with the sheriff, he hires Corrie Swanson as his special assistant. Corrie happens to be the sheriff's favorite person in town to hassle. She is a misfit teenager with purple hair, pierced tongue, Gothic dress and a generally bad attitude.

Pendergast immediately contradicts the sheriff by stating the murderer is someone local.

As the murders continue, the suspense builds and the ending is like the murders almost were, perfect.