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Still Life With Crows
Douglas Preston
2003 · 571 pages · Thriller
How it reads
Still Life With Crows is thriller (serial-killer thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in a rural setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and survival. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 571 pages it's a real commitment. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something dark
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want to be sure it ends well
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy, heartwarming or funny
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- thriller
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- rural
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- dark
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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