Crimson Shore (Pendergast Series Book 15)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00XIDJ02A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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The authors welcome visitors to their alarmingly active Facebook page, where they post regularly. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series and their recent novels include Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, Two Graves, and Gideon's Corpse. In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and Smithsonian magazines. Preston and Child's Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National P
But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive. And it may be that Constance, with her own troubled past, is the only one who truly comprehends the awful danger that she, Pendergast, and the residents of Exmouth must face . A secret chamber.A mysterious shipwreck.A murder in the desolate salt marshes.A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Then, a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled history, and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression, kept secret all these years. The only clue is a series of mysterious carvings. Could these demonic symbols bear
The unusual becomes believable and normal in the authors' capable hands."Associated Press"Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have created one of the most distinctive-and eccentric-sleuths in the history of crime fiction. Pendergastsolves crimes as no one else does."Maine Sunday Telegram"The Pendergast novels combine elegant prose with sharp-witted storytelling, and the FBI agent continues to be one of thrillerdom's more engaging characters."Booklist"Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have fashioned their most complex, ambitious ent
"Two-thirds of a decent novel" according to TChris. New York has been depressingly free of serial murders, but a stolen wine collection in New England gets Pendergast’s attention -- or, rather, the opportunity to earn a rare bottle of wine as a fee gets his investigative juices flowing. Of course, the investigation quickly reveals a more serious crime, one that inspires allusions to Poe. And of course, murders and mutilated corpses soon follow, giving Pendergast the chance to probe the kind of weirdness he reli. S. Berry said Not a Happy Reader. I have to cry, "Foul!" over the ending. I dont appreciate paying fourteen bucks for half of a book. I think a book, even if it is part of a series, should stand alone. Unfortunately, the ending is not the ending-there are three important questions left completely unanswered and, of course, insure that the reader will buy the next installment. If that were my only complaint, it would be enough. But the first half of the book was disjointed and sophomoric, leaving me . Character assassination. It's one thing to write another Pendergast novel obviously thought up on a wine tasting trip, and written when hungover, but it's just offensivehow the main characters- our beloved Pendergast and Constance suddenly become shadows of the people we've come to know and love. Several of their parts were so out of character, I'm not sure if the author remembered who he was writing about. The ending gives me hope that the next novel will reveal more about Constance, who's