Author: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Published: August 20th 2019 by Grand Central Publishing
Format: eBook, Hardcover, 384 pages
Genre: Thriller
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Nora Kelly #1
Combining legend, fact, fiction, and science, the writing team of Preston Child takes the reader into the final days of the Donner Party and wraps enough mystery and intrigue to captivate the reader with a current-day archaeological dig, led by Nora Kelly a curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, in the Lost Camp, all the while encompassing treasure hunting, grave robbing, and bio-warfare.
The book grabs you from the beginning, slows down a bit in the middle, and ends with such an explosive end the reader might not have understood, from the beginning, where this book would end up. Some of the descriptions are a bit graphic and stomach-turning, but this is about the infamous Donner Party and most people know what was supposed to have happened.
This is the first in the new Nora Kelly series which has Pendergast making a surprise visit, but not sure if he will be a recurring character. But one does wonder if Corrie and Nora will partner together on future cases.
The book grabs you from the beginning, slows down a bit in the middle, and ends with such an explosive end the reader might not have understood, from the beginning, where this book would end up. Some of the descriptions are a bit graphic and stomach-turning, but this is about the infamous Donner Party and most people know what was supposed to have happened.
This is the first in the new Nora Kelly series which has Pendergast making a surprise visit, but not sure if he will be a recurring character. But one does wonder if Corrie and Nora will partner together on future cases.
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