Cemetery Dance, Douglas Preston
Cemetery Dance, Douglas Preston
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Cemetery Dance

Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrator: Rene Auberjonois

Abridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2009


Synopsis

Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult.

William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor--a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private--and decidedly unorthodox--quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.

Author Bio

Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, Relic, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by James on 2011-03-16 14:41:52

Ridiculous plot. Don't bother.

Goodreads review by James on March 09, 2022

Cemetery Dance is the 9th book in the Pendergast crime series written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. These suspense thrillers follow a semi-rogue FBI agent who's full of surprises and charm as he solves bizarre cases generally in and around the New York City area. Some are mini arcs, but this......more

Goodreads review by John (I want my notifications back) on September 14, 2024

I just cannot get enough of Pendergast. His methodology entrances my interest. This writing is right up there with the best that Preston and Child have written. There is never a slow moment. There were so many different plots evolving throughout this book I got dizzy trying to keep up. The Ville is......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on July 08, 2017

Action packed mystery and suspense! Another great Pendergast novel. This one will have you guessing and second guessing the whole time. While this is a standalone story, it does have its place in the series (after the Diogenes trilogy) and enough references to the previous actions of the characters (......more