Cemetery Dance

Douglas Preston · Lincoln Child

May 2009 · Pendergast series Book 9 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

Pendergast, the world's most mysterious FBI Special Agent, investigates a murderous cult in New York City that no one has ever survived.
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.

Ratings and reviews

My heart dropped @ the beginning to lose a fine character, sorry for the passing of someone I grew fond of in the Pentergast series, but that said it was a great ending didn't see it till the end who was the deranged person behind it all.

I love reading these books! I'm getting worried about what I'm going to read when I finish them all! lol I started at the beginning of the Pendergast novels and am working my way up, which is the way I recommend for anyone wanting to start reading this series of novels. All of these books are hard to put down for anyone who enjoys murder mysteries that border on the edge of sci-fi, although interestingly enough always seem to have explanations that are pretty rational! Pendergast is definitely one of my favorite characters of all time and I highly recommend these books!

I for one love pulling out my dictionary and learning new words, save for when I don't have one handy.

About the author

The thrillers of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child "stand head and shoulders above their rivals" (Publishers Weekly). Preston and Child's Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series and their recent novels include Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, Two Graves, and Gideon's Corpse. In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and Smithsonian magazines. Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published five novels of his own, including the huge bestseller Deep Storm.
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