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Sep 21, 2015rswcove rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
The feeling I had reading Still Life with Crows was that it was a character study that got out of hand. FBI Special Agent Pendergast is a too cool to exist kind of character in the vein of House M.D., inspector Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and a host of other eccentric geniuses who are a level above the rest of us plebes. Pendergast works, because Preston and Child are good at character writing, but the book stumbles because they seem to view credibility of plot as a weakness endured by other writers.