Douglas J Preston
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Description
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
2) Bloodless
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 20
Description
"Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA"--
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 14
Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
Special Agent Pendergast takes on a private case in Exmouth, Massachusetts - a quaint village on the coast north of Salem - to investigate the theft of a valuable wine cellar. He travels to the seaside town with his ward, Constance Green, where they quickly discover something far more sinister: a bricked-up niche in the wine cellar that holds the remains of a man, tortured and then entombed alive 150 years ago. But why? Print run 250,000.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 18
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
434 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Description
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 colleague, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to investigate a rash of killings in Miami Beach, where a bloodthirsty psychopath is cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them with cryptic handwritten...
6) Two graves
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
484 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Special Agent Pendergast pursued his wife's kidnappers into Mexico. But then, things went wrong and they escaped. Emotionally shattered, he retreated to his New York apartment and shut out the world. Only a request from his NYPD friend, Lt. D'Agosta to help him find a recent killer brings him into the outside world again where they soon discover that these killing's and that of his wife are connected. 480pp., 200K, Auth res: ME; NJ, Radio SAT Tour...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Preston and Child return with the next book in their #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring Special Agent Pendergast"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
""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...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 15 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm. + 1 set of earphones + 1 AAA battery.
Description
Psychotic killer Diogenes faces down his incarcerated FBI agent brother, while the Museum of Natural History reopens a long-closed tomb exhibit, a decision that coincides with a series of murders and sparks rumors about an ancient curse.
11) Cold vengeance
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 11
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 12 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
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) Dead mountain
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
13) Crooked river
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm.
14) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
As Constance finds her way back to New York City in the late 1800s to prevent the death of her siblings and stop serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, FBI Special Agent Pendergast desperately tries to find a way to reunite with her before it's too late.
16) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical...
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Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...