Pendergast novels

Author:
Preston, Douglas J
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1. Relic

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it...

2. Reliquary

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decapitated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.

3. The cabinet of curiosities

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.

4. Still life with crows

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A serial killer is loose in Medicine Creek, Kansas, a farming town with a small, dusty downtown. FBI Special Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate. He must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four-generation Kansas family, before someone else is murdered.

5. Brimstone

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.

6. Dance of death

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.

7. The book of the dead

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala...

8. The wheel of darkness

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Taking Constance on an international tour to expose her to a world she has never experienced, FBI agent Pendergast visits the Tibetan monastery where he received martial arts training, only to learn that a rare and dangerous artifact has been stolen.

9. Cemetery dance

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.

10. Fever dream

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou--he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?

11. Cold vengeance

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers--a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana--he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder. Peeling...

12. Two graves

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Special Agent Pendergast assists NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta in the investigation of a number of killings that ultimately prove to be messages from his wife's kidnappers.

13. White fire

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
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Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protege, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist.

14. Blue labyrinth

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his...

15. Crimson shore

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"#1 bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with their next blockbuster Pendergast novel"--

16. The Obsidian chamber

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Preston and Child return with the next book in their #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring Special Agent Pendergast"-- "After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachusetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. Sick with grief, his ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive -- only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past....

17. City of endless night: a Pendergast novel

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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""FOR GOD'S SAKE, TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENED!" "VENGEANCE. VENGEANCE IS WHAT'S HAPPENED." It begins as a manhunt for Grace Ozmian, the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire. At first, the NYPD assumes Grace, beautiful, reckless, and a regular feature of the local tabloids, has simply sped off on another wild adventure. But the case becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens,...

18. Verses for the dead

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath are distinguished by a confounding M.O.: cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving...

19. Crooked river

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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"Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach--each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene--and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report...

20. Bloodless: a Pendergast novel

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305--Portland to Seattle--with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins--sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous...

21. The cabinet of Dr. Leng: a Pendergast novel

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Astoundingly, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins: New York City in the late 1800s. She leaps at the chance to return...although it means leaving the present forever. Constance sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deats of her sister and brother. But along the road to redemption, Manhattan's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, lies in wait, ready to strike at the slightest provocation. Meanwhile,...

22. Angel of vengeance

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A desperate bargain is broken... Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life -- but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. A clever trap is set... Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help--for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five...