Agent Pendergast · Book 4

Still Life with Crows

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
584
ISBN-13
9780786259427
Type
novel

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About this book

The fourth Agent Pendergast novel, "Still Life with Crows" (2003, 584 pages) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child shifts the series' tone toward serial-killer procedural, one of the tonal swings between hard-science thriller and gothic horror that mark the series.

Its place in Agent Pendergast

Still Life with Crows is book 4 in the Agent Pendergast series. It follows The Cabinet of Curiosities. It is followed by Brimstone. See the full Agent Pendergast reading order.

Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is an FBI investigator like no other: a wealthy, aristocratic New Orleans blue-blood with encyclopedic knowledge, unsettling composure, and a habit of solving cases through methods well outside FBI procedure — forensic deduction crossed with historical research, occult folklore and outright derring-do. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child built the series out of their 1995 debut Relic (adapted into the 1997 film), and it has grown into a sprawling saga that ranges from New York…

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