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Still Life with Crows

From the New York Times bestselling duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child comes their spookiest yet: a small town in Kansas, a series of grisly murders, and the depraved and hidden evil within. Enter the new American Gothic...

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 mutilated and placed carefully in an elaborate tableau in the middle of the endless cornfields. Now cool-eyed and smooth FBI Agent Pendergast arrives to discover a community he must turn inside out to find the killer who can only be one of them...



 

The Secret Chapter
 
On the next page you will find the climactic section of a certain subplot arc. Upon finishing this, we felt it to be a little - well - harsh. So we toned it down for the printed book. This is the original version. (Contains spoilers!) [more]
 


Sample Chapter (Chapter 7)
 
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Sample Chapter (Chapter 18)
 
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