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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... Kraus place . Kraus's Kaverns . You passed it on the way in , big old house set out in the corn about a mile west of town . Old Winifred Kraus rents out rooms on the top floor . Not that she has many takers these days . And she'll talk ...
... Kraus place . Kraus's Kaverns . You passed it on the way in , big old house set out in the corn about a mile west of town . Old Winifred Kraus rents out rooms on the top floor . Not that she has many takers these days . And she'll talk ...
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... Kraus had sharp eyes and she could see that he was ghostly - looking , thin and insubstantial in the bright summer light . She was frightened because she remembered , as a child many years ago , her father telling her that this was the ...
... Kraus had sharp eyes and she could see that he was ghostly - looking , thin and insubstantial in the bright summer light . She was frightened because she remembered , as a child many years ago , her father telling her that this was the ...
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... Kraus ? " " Yes ? " The man actually bowed . " You aren't by chance the Miss Winifred Kraus who offers lodging to travelers ? And , I'm given to understand , some of the most excellent home cooking in Cry County , Kansas ? " " Why , yes ...
... Kraus ? " " Yes ? " The man actually bowed . " You aren't by chance the Miss Winifred Kraus who offers lodging to travelers ? And , I'm given to understand , some of the most excellent home cooking in Cry County , Kansas ? " " Why , yes ...
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... Kraus , but I do need to tell you who I am and why I'm here . You asked me if there has been a death . In fact , as you probably know , there has . I am a special agent for the FBI inves- tigating the murder in Medicine Creek . " He ...
... Kraus , but I do need to tell you who I am and why I'm here . You asked me if there has been a death . In fact , as you probably know , there has . I am a special agent for the FBI inves- tigating the murder in Medicine Creek . " He ...
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... Kraus herself - at least a year . Pendergast remained motionless , staring at the needlepoint , breathing the antique air of the bedroom . Then , straightening , he walked across the creaking floorboards to the old rippled window and ...
... Kraus herself - at least a year . Pendergast remained motionless , staring at the needlepoint , breathing the antique air of the bedroom . Then , straightening , he walked across the creaking floorboards to the old rippled window and ...
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ahead began Boot Brast breath broken Brushy Jim Cabinet of Curiosities cave cavern Chauncy Cole corn cornfields Corrie crack Cry County dark Deeper door Douglas Preston dust eyes face FBI agent feet felt flashlight floor Gasparilla Ghost Warriors glanced goggles going Gremlin Gro-Bain hand Harry Beaumont head heard hell Kansas killer killings knew Larssen Lavender Lefty light Lincoln Child looked Maisie McFelty Medicine Creek minutes Miss Kraus Miss Swanson Mounds moved night night-vision goggles nodded paused pulled Raskovich Rheinbeck road rock rose scream seemed serial killer Sheriff Hazen shit shotgun Shurte side silence slowly smell smile Smit Ludwig Smitty sound Special Agent Pendergast stalactites stared stood stopped storm Stott suddenly sure talking There's thing thought took tornado warning town tunnel turkey voice waited walked wall watched Weeks window Winifred Kraus
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Página 58 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 432 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Página 175 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Página 175 - God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the Sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
Página 228 - I'll never night-herd again. Feet in the stirrups and seat in the saddle, I hung and rattled with them long-horn cattle. Last night I was on guard and the leader broke the ranks, I hit my horse down the shoulders and I spurred him in the flanks. The wind commenced to blow, and the rain began to fall, Hit looked, by grab, like we was goin
Página 170 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Página 77 - Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse, Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?