STILL LIFE WITH CROWS by Child, Lincoln & Douglas Preston - 2003

Warner Books. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 0446531421 . Clean, solid condition. Ex-library book with usual type markings. Pages are clean, a little soiling outer edge of pages. Two pages at rear affected by split at spine have been neatly taped. Pages otherwise unmarked. Jacket has light scuffing, light edgewear. "Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is astretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate..." [691]; Pendergast, Book 4; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 480 pages; Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is astretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBIAgent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate. From the fields to the local caves, Pendergast discovers the remnants of a Prohibition-era moonshine operation and the truth behind one of the town's greatest mysteries: who was behind the Medicine Creek Massacre of 1865. Now, Pendergast must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four-generation Kansas family-before someone else is murdered. .