Still Life With Crows

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In Medicine Creek, Kansas, an old-fashioned small town where nothing ever changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate.

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M. S. Spencer

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While technically a horror story, Still Life with Crows — Book 4 of the Pendergast series — is more a thriller and mystery. A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, or the curse of a past massacre coming back to haunt them? Either way, FBI Agent Pendergast—a more eccentric version of the eccentric Sherlock Holmes—must discover where the killer is hiding before he kills again.

Preston and Child never fail to draw me in almost immediately. Whenever I’m bored, at loose ends, or waiting for a galley proof, I can be immediately…

From M.S.'s 3 favorite reads in 2023.