Cemetery Dance (novel)

Cemetery Dance
Hardcover edition
Author	Douglas Preston Lincoln Child
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Pendergast
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date	May 12, 2009
Media type	Print, e-book, audiobook
Pages	435 pp.
ISBN	0-446-58029-5
OCLC	181603302
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3566.R3982 C46 2009
Preceded by	The Wheel of Darkness
Followed by	Fever Dream

Cemetery Dance is a thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child released on May 12, 2009 by Grand Central Publishing. This is the ninth installment in the Special Agent Pendergast series.^[1] During production, it was known by the pre-release title Revenant.^[2] The preceding novel is The Wheel of Darkness.

Plot

After celebrating their first anniversary, William Smithback, a NY Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archeologist, return home from a romantic dinner. Kelly slips out to pick up a pastry from the local shop, but upon her return to their apartment in the Upper West side of Manhattan, she finds the door ajar, Smithback dead, and is attacked as she approaches.^[3]

Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, the attacker seen leaving the building was an individual who lived in the apartment building along with Smithback and Kelly. The twist: the man that witnesses believe is Smithback's murderer was pulled from the river dead, after committing suicide, two weeks before the attack. D'Agosta, a homicide detective, leads the official investigation, while FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast's and Kelly's involvement leads to a less traditional quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them into a part of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive and deadly hotbed of Obeah, the West Indian Zombi cult of sorcery and magic. Unfortunately many others learn of the cult, thus endangering themselves and countless innocent lives.

References

External links

Works by Douglas Preston and/or Lincoln Child

Agent Pendergast series

Relic (1995)
Reliquary (1997)
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
Still Life with Crows (2003)
Brimstone (2004)
Dance of Death (2005)
The Book of the Dead (2006)
The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
Cemetery Dance (2009)
Fever Dream (2010)
Cold Vengeance (2011)
Two Graves (2012)
White Fire (2013)
Blue Labyrinth (2014)
Crimson Shore (2015)

Gideon Crew series

Gideon's Sword (2011)
Gideon's Corpse (2012)
The Lost Island (2014)
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016)

Other novels

Mount Dragon (1996)
Riptide (1998)
Thunderhead (1999)
The Ice Limit (2000)

Characters

Douglas Preston

Tom Broadbent series	The Codex (2004) Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005)

Wyman Ford series	Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005) Blasphemy (2008) Impact (2010) The Kraken Project (2014)

Other novels	Jennie (1994)

Other works	The Monster of Florence (2008, with Mario Spezi)

Characters	Wyman Ford

Lincoln Child

Jeremy Logan series	Deep Storm (2007) Terminal Freeze (2009) The Third Gate (2012) The Forgotten Room (2015)

Other novels	Utopia (2002) Death Match (2004)

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