Mark your calendars, and order your signed copy of the new book from Doug Preston and Lincoln Child.
Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, sent out this email yesterday.
Doug Preston & Lincoln Child
in the book launch for
Tuesday, June 3
7:00 PM
(this is 7 PM PDT outside of AZ)
Doug will be in the store, Linc will zoom in
Our copies are signed by both authors and come with a set of trading cards as usual
Join us live or on FB or on YT
You Agent Pendergast fans will be thrilled to know that there is the same high concept, high action, and swerve into the supernatural in this terrific new Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson thriller than in the Agent Pendergast series. Plus the setting in the badlands and ancient canyons of Northern New Mexico make this a winner for readers of Tony and Anne Hillerman.
You need not have read one of the earlier Kellys to dive into this but you will for sure want to grab a copy of the last, Diablo Mesa ($18.99) as well.
I was riveted to the pages of Badlands and you will be too from the horrifying open scenes right to the climax.
Why would two women, years apart, disrobe and lay down to die under the scorching sun in the same New Mexican desert? That’s the question Preston and Child pose for forensic anthropologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, both stationed in Santa Fe.
After the skeletal remains of high school science teacher Molly Vine are spotted by a drone, Corrie Swanson is assigned to investigate. She finds that Vine apparently died five years earlier, after venturing into an area that the Navajo believed to be the home of skinwalkers!
A spearpoint found under Vine’s bones leads her to consult her friend and colleague Kelly. The FBI canvasses the area and discovers the older remains of geological consultant Mandy Driver, leading Swanson and Kelly to theorize that the deaths might be connected to the Gallinas, an Indigenous tribe who were wiped out in the 13th century. The tribe, thought to have moved north from Mexico into the hoodoos and wild canyons of northern NM where fracking is ongoing under protest, disappeared centuries ago.
“Preston and Child once again use real history as the starting point for their hair-raising plot, which makes a series of tantalizing turns before culminating in an encounter with the supernatural. This is on a par with the best of the authors’ Pendergast series.,” says one reviewer. I agree.
I wonder if Doug will need to make an apology to the University of NM faculty after publication….
Click here to order a signed copy, Badlands.