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Still Life with Crows Pendergast Book 4 Douglas Preston Lincoln Child Books

The book was fascinating right up until I got to page 306, and then instead of pages 307-338, pages 275-306 were repeated.As much as I want to see what happens next, AMAZON WON'T LET ME RETURN IT FOR A REPLACEMENT. Apparently, some bean-counting mental midget has rigged the ordering system so returns aren't possible if the order is more than a couple of weeks old. Way to go Amazon! You now have joined the ranks of those companies that are so big and successful that you can now blithely go out of your way to screw the customer.


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Still Life with Crows Pendergast Book 4 Douglas Preston Lincoln Child Books Reviews

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's novel "Still Life With Crows" grabbed me right from the start and would not let go until I reached the last 20% of the book, which I found not as compelling. Still Life with Crows

The police think a ritual serial killer is loose in the cornfields surrounding Medicine Bend, Kansas. Each unwary victim is easy prey for the killer since he can run like an antelope and then crush a person's neck like a peanut in his large, powerful hands. If he is hungry, he just gobbles up the unfortunate party without any complementing sides or condiments. If he is not so hungry, he will drag them back to his cave and boil the person for dinner or a midnight snack. He is not your typical serial killer. Most of the bodies he leaves behind are in such a foul state the police and crime scene crew continually lose their breakfast, lunch, or dinner when they find his grisly handiwork, usually from the turkey buzzards flying overhead.

The tension of knowing anyone near a cornfield (which is everyone) is fair game and could be to be sliced and diced creates a spine tingling ambience to the landscape all the characters travel.

One of my favorite literary figures, special agent Aloysius Pendergast of the FBI, an albino-like blonde man in a black tailored suit and imported custom shoes is more revealed by Preston and Child in this offering than in the preceding novels. The mystique surrounding this character is so fascinating, I can't wait for his next adventure. Like Elvis, when he exits the building, he always leaves his audience wanting more.

Pendergast's appearance at the initial crime scene in his black suit, white shirt, and tie in the sweltering one-hundred degree heat of the corn fields is priceless.

Being a Stephen King wannabe myself, I am drawn to novels with macabre themes. I love many of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, but my hands down favorite is the "Hound of the Baskervilles" To me, the impending doom presented by the humongous hound of hell is much more compelling than Holmes solving a complex robbery.

According to the web, all of the Preston and Child novels are in the thriller genre, but their best works in my opinion have the familiar elements of horror and spine tingling suspense. And as in "Still Life With Crows," the characters spend a considerable amount of time in the dark where the reader knows someone or something lurks unseen in the blackness with diabolical intentions.

I was worried when Pendergast hired a female Goth to be his chauffeur and then his Watson, but as the story progressed, Carrie's Swanson's involvement was not as tiresome as I feared it would be. The agent's motives for taking her under his wing were never satisfactorily explained for my taste, but the end result was nevertheless satisfying.

As others before moi have written, if there is a weakness in the novel, it would be the ending; however, in the defense of the authors, I was delighted by their explanation of the ritual killings. I doubt many of those who read the book figured this out before hand. I certainly did not.

Way to go Preston & Child, "Still Life With Crows" is another triumph.
I liked this book overall. It is a fun addition to the Pendergast saga. It has everything I have come to expect from Preston and Child (well-written, fun factoids, developed scene and setting...), but I have a few minor issues with this book...

For one thing, this book does very little as far as getting to know Pendergast goes. Though he is the only consistent character so far in the series, he never quite takes center stage. To this point, we (the readers) know very little about him; only that he is moneyed, smart, resourceful, and always one step ahead of local law enforcement. Still, despite the lack of revealing information, it is a fun little romp/murder mystery with a familiar character, pace, and scope. Great for airplanes...

My other minor complaint is a plot device that is used near the end of the book. Not spoiling anything, but an important minor character decides to take things into their own hands, without consulting Pendergast or any other appropriate authority, and so gets in a huge heap of trouble. One of the best things about this series is that the stories flow naturally and the characters make reasonable, calculated decisions. In this, Preston and Child have strayed from that tradition, and it was disappointing. Alas, the book was still enjoyable. I will read the next one soon.
I'm so happy to have found this series! I love the stories and character development, and love slowly getting to know Agent Pendergast. For some reason, I keep thinking "Prendergast." Weird. I've only just finished this fourth book in the series, and was quite surprised at the turn at the end. I think the characters are nicely developed, and I always enjoy having people to dislike and people to love. My only complaint is the authors' use of incorrect "could care less" term instead of the correct "couldn't care less" (after all, if you could care less, why don't you <smile>). But that a just a nitpick. I love forward to reading all of the books in this series. I have enjoyed Lee Child's other novels, but I'm not sure I've read Douglas Preston yet.
It started off a little slowly, but then it gathered speed and I couldn't put it down. Amazing ending. I stumbled on these authors just recently and I am super hooked. I had picked up "Cabinet of Curiosities" at the library's book sale and was totally mesmerized, so I decided to read the whole Pendergast series in order. These are some of the more exciting books I have ever read and I have read many thousands. I also have a great interest in anthropology, so that kind of flavor appeals to me. Yes, I did read Preston's non-fiction "Lost City of the Monkey God" which was also excellent and which is what started this process.
The book was fascinating right up until I got to page 306, and then instead of pages 307-338, pages 275-306 were repeated.As much as I want to see what happens next, AMAZON WON'T LET ME RETURN IT FOR A REPLACEMENT. Apparently, some bean-counting mental midget has rigged the ordering system so returns aren't possible if the order is more than a couple of weeks old. Way to go ! You now have joined the ranks of those companies that are so big and successful that you can now blithely go out of your way to screw the customer.