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Still Life With Crows
by Douglas Preston
content note: child neglect, outsider art, amoral violence
Set in a small town in Kansas, Pendergast visits after a woman is found dead, en tableau, posed in the middle of a clearing in a corner field, surrounded by crows impaled on Cheyenne arrows dating back to the mid 1800s. Local police of course are certain it must be the work of someone from out of town, but Pendergast finds that doubtful, in countryside where approaching vehicles can be seen from miles away. More murders and the issue of bad publicity while the state university makes a decision about potentially siting a GMO corn field project locally or at a nearby rival town leads to much tension.
Pendergast enlists the help of a local high school student (and locally viewed as a bad egg and troublemaker by the sheriff), Corrie, to help drive him around and assist with his investigation. Pendergast unravels the origins of the local legend regarding a massacre and together with the sheriff and state police, uncover horrors near inconceivable.
This one didn't grip me as much as the three previous but I still found it interesting enough.
Set in a small town in Kansas, Pendergast visits after a woman is found dead, en tableau, posed in the middle of a clearing in a corner field, surrounded by crows impaled on Cheyenne arrows dating back to the mid 1800s. Local police of course are certain it must be the work of someone from out of town, but Pendergast finds that doubtful, in countryside where approaching vehicles can be seen from miles away. More murders and the issue of bad publicity while the state university makes a decision about potentially siting a GMO corn field project locally or at a nearby rival town leads to much tension.
Pendergast enlists the help of a local high school student (and locally viewed as a bad egg and troublemaker by the sheriff), Corrie, to help drive him around and assist with his investigation. Pendergast unravels the origins of the local legend regarding a massacre and together with the sheriff and state police, uncover horrors near inconceivable.
This one didn't grip me as much as the three previous but I still found it interesting enough.