Library 2026-01-20
1 - Relic
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [1]: Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...B...
3 - The Cabinet of Curiosities
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [3]: In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings...
4 - Still Life with Crows
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [4]: A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the...
5 - Brimstone
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [5]: A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers th...
6 - Dance of Death
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [6]: Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal.An undying hatred between them.Now, a perfect crime.And the ultimate challenged: Stop me if you can.
7 - The Book of the Dead
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [7]: A brilliant FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit.His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime.A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent bre...
8 - The Wheel of Darkness
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [8]: FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in ...
9 - Cemetery Dance
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [9]: 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...
10 - Fever Dream
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [10]: Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago.Today, he discovers she was murdered.Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, le...
12 - Two Graves
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [12]: For twelve years, he believed she died in an accident. Then, he was told she'd been murdered. Now, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife Helen is alive. But their reunion is cut short when Helen is bra...
13 - White Fire
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [13]: Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protegee, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who--with b...
14 - Blue Labyrinth
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [14]: Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel BLUE LABYRINTHA long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Ag...
15 - Crimson Shore
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [15]: A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint...
16 - The Obsidian Chamber
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [16]: A Tragic Disappearance After a harrowing otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachusetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A Shocking Return Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, ...
17 - City of Endless Night
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [17]: When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned...
18 - Verses for the Dead
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [18]: After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.Pendergast a...
19 - Crooked River
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [19]: Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach--each one with a crudely severed human foo...
20 - Bloodless
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [20]: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night...and into histor...
21 - The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pendergast [21]: Astoundingly, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s, leaping at the chance, although it means leaving the present forever.A DESPERATE OPPORTUNITYConstance sets off on a quest to p...