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Cemetery Dance, June 2009 Pendergast series by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing Featuring: Laura Hayward; Vincent D'Agosta; Pendergast 448 pages ISBN: 0446580295 EAN: 9780446580298 Hardcover Add to Wish List Purchase Amazon Barnes & Noble Powell's Books Books-A-Million Indie BookShop

"Zombies, voodoo and a secretive cult will stymie and enthrall readers."

Cemetery Dance
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Posted May 17, 2009

Thriller Crime

In the opening pages of CEMETERY DANCE, Bill Smithback and his wife, Nora Kelly, are attacked in their NYC apartment. It's the beginning of one of the most adventurous Pendergast novels -- readers will be alternately shocked and horrified, enthralled and repelled, by a storyline unlike any of the other books. D'Agosta makes it his personal crusade to find out who attacked his friends, and that means delving into a series of apparent zombie attacks to find the truth. Joining forces with Pendergast, whose New Orleans background gives him a strong history in voodoo, the two men fight to uncover what a sinister cult may have to do with the attacks. But when Nora is kidnapped, D'Agosta knows time is running out. He breaks rules and puts his life on the line to rescue her. Wow! It is impossible to speak about this book without giving away a crucial piece of the plot. I can say that Preston and Child never write better than when they're working together on the Pendergast series. This book was chilling, fascinating and I didn't figure the ending! This is a must-read series for thriller/suspense fans. One of my favorites!

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SUMMARY

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.

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