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Relic: The First Novel in the Pendergast Series

by Douglas Preston

A museum mystery with a horror edge

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A museum mystery with a horror edge

At the New York Museum of Natural History, a major exhibition is nearing its opening while visitors are being killed in the building’s hidden spaces. The autopsies raise the possibility that the attacker is not human, yet the museum’s directors plan to proceed with the celebration. Researcher Margo Green sets out to identify the threat, and the novel introduces FBI Special Agent Pendergast. The museum setting brings scientific research, institutional pressure, and a series of unexplained murders into the same suspense-driven premise.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in horror grounded in a museum setting and unexplained killings.
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries involving scientific investigation and institutional decisions.
  • Readers who want to begin the Pendergast series with its introducing novel.

Themes

Unexplained violenceScientific investigationInstitutional pressureMuseums and hidden spaces

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Book overview

From bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child comes Relic, the novel that introduces FBI Special Agent Pendergast.

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...

But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.

Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?

"Sit back, crack open the book, and get ready for the ride of your life." --David Baldacci

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