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Description: 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.
The Fangirl’s Review: A-
Cemetery Dance is a tightly woven mystery full of twists, turns, and just enough red herrings to keep you guessing until the very end. This is my first Preston & Child novel, so I did feel a bit behind on all of the characters and their relationships, but this is definitely not a difficult book to get into, and after a little bit of head-scratching when new characters were introduced, I was well and truly sucked in. I’ve never been much of a mystery reader; I tend to prefer the fantastic, but this book incorporates a well-written mystery and the supernatural seamlessly.
The characters are fascinating, and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the Pendergast books in particular. Agent Pendergast is a strange character; he’s obviously got a fascinating backstory, and I love his unorthodox ways of looking at the world, and in particular crime scenes. The authors obviously did painstaking research for this book, and I found myself looking for information on Vodou and Obeah out of sheer curiosity. The novel ends with a twist that I didn’t see coming at all, and I absolutely love that.
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