Still Life with CrowsGrand Central Publishing, 2003 M07 1 - 448 páginas When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse -- either way, no one is safe. A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe. |
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... Hazen lit another cigarette , coughed , and scratched himself , look- ing at the dry ranks of corn . He wondered if it was somebody's cow who'd wandered into the corn and was now dead of bloat and greed . Since when was it a sheriff's ...
... Hazen lit another cigarette , coughed , and scratched himself , look- ing at the dry ranks of corn . He wondered if it was somebody's cow who'd wandered into the corn and was now dead of bloat and greed . Since when was it a sheriff's ...
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... Hazen bullied his way through row after row . Already his nose was running . He tossed his cigarette away , then realized he should probably have pinched it off first . Hell with it . A thousand acres of the damn corn could burn and ...
... Hazen bullied his way through row after row . Already his nose was running . He tossed his cigarette away , then realized he should probably have pinched it off first . Hell with it . A thousand acres of the damn corn could burn and ...
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... Hazen stared at the victim , sickness rising in his gut . This was the first homicide in Medicine Creek in his lifetime . The last killing had been during Prohibition , when Rocker Manning had been shot at by the creek while buying a ...
... Hazen stared at the victim , sickness rising in his gut . This was the first homicide in Medicine Creek in his lifetime . The last killing had been during Prohibition , when Rocker Manning had been shot at by the creek while buying a ...
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... Hazen ? " The towering Kansas state trooper captain came crunching over the corn stubble , his black boots shining , his hand out- stretched , mouth tensed in what was supposed to pass for a smile . Hazen took the hand and shook it ...
... Hazen ? " The towering Kansas state trooper captain came crunching over the corn stubble , his black boots shining , his hand out- stretched , mouth tensed in what was supposed to pass for a smile . Hazen took the hand and shook it ...
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... Hazen thought her neck was probably broken . But there was no bruising on the neck indicating strangulation . If it had been broken , the act had been done by a single hard twist . The killing , Hazen concluded , had taken place ...
... Hazen thought her neck was probably broken . But there was no bruising on the neck indicating strangulation . If it had been broken , the act had been done by a single hard twist . The killing , Hazen concluded , had taken place ...
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