Cemetery Dance

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Grand Central Publishing (2009)
ISBN 9780446580298
Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (4/09)


Best selling authors, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, did it again!  “Cemetery Dance” is one of the best thrillers I’ve read in a long time.  I found myself holding my breath as I kept reading, and my heart kept beating faster.  That to me is fantastic writing.

Preston and Child bring Pendergast, a special agent, to New York City to do a murder investigation on a couple, William Smithback and Nora Kelly.  Smithback was a NY Times reporter and Kelly was an archaeologist with the Museum of Natural History and lived in an apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.  The murder was atrocious and vicious.

Residents of the apartment claim the murderer was a neighbor.  In fact, the security camera confirms the same accusation; however, the problem is that the neighbor has been dead for almost two weeks.  Pendergast and Lt. D’Agosta decide to investigate the murder on their own which takes them to a secretive cult where it is known that no one, especially impostors or intruders, ever escape.  And….that’s all I’m going to tell you.

“Cemetery Dance” is well written with a curious plot.  Preston and Child’s character development is so clear that the reader is able to place themselves along with them.  If you want to read a page-turner, this is it.

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