Cemetery Dance (Agent Pendergast Series, 9)
Buy Now
By using these links, you support READO. We receive an affiliate commission without any additional costs to you.
Description
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.
Book Information
Posts
While I enjoyed this book as a mystery/horror novel and found the characters relatable and likable, I was disappointed in the plot. I was somewhat confused in the middle because of the supernatural vibes I was getting but guessed the direction of the climax and the mastermind pretty straight away. Then again, I've never read any of the author's other works of this series and am therefore not as emotionally attached to characters and plot as other long-time fans and as a result the book just wasn't my cup of tea. I may, however, pick up the first novel to see what I missed.
Description
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.
Book Information
Posts
While I enjoyed this book as a mystery/horror novel and found the characters relatable and likable, I was disappointed in the plot. I was somewhat confused in the middle because of the supernatural vibes I was getting but guessed the direction of the climax and the mastermind pretty straight away. Then again, I've never read any of the author's other works of this series and am therefore not as emotionally attached to characters and plot as other long-time fans and as a result the book just wasn't my cup of tea. I may, however, pick up the first novel to see what I missed.