Lincoln Child Books In Order

Pendergast Books In Publication Order

  1. Relic (1995)
  2. Reliquary (1997)
  3. The Cabinet of Curiosities (2001)
  4. Still Life with Crows (2003)
  5. Brimstone (2004)
  6. Dance of Death (2005)
  7. The Book of the Dead (2006)
  8. The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
  9. Cemetery Dance (2009)
  10. Fever Dream (2010)
  11. Cold Vengeance (2011)
  12. Extraction (2012)
  13. Two Graves (2012)
  14. White Fire (2013)
  15. Blue Labyrinth (2014)
  16. Crimson Shore (2015)
  17. The Obsidian Chamber (2016)
  18. City of Endless Night (2018)
  19. Verses for the Dead (2018)
  20. Crooked River (2020)
  21. Bloodless (2021)

Dr. Jeremy Logan Books In Publication Order

  1. Deep Storm (2007)
  2. Terminal Freeze (2008)
  3. The Third Gate (2012)
  4. The Forgotten Room (2015)
  5. Full Wolf Moon (2017)

Gideon Crew Books In Publication Order

  1. Gideon’s Sword (2011)
  2. Gideon’s Corpse (2012)
  3. The Lost Island (2014)
  4. Beyond the Ice Limit (2016)
  5. The Pharaoh Key (2018)

Nora Kelly Books In Publication Order

  1. Thunderhead (1999)
  2. Old Bones (2019)
  3. The Scorpion’s Tail (2021)
  4. Diablo Mesa (2022)

Tales of the Dark Books In Publication Order

  1. Tales of the Dark (With: Bram Stoker) (1987)
  2. Tales of the Dark 2 (1987)
  3. Tales of the Dark 3 (1988)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Mount Dragon (With: Douglas Preston) (1996)
  2. Riptide (With: Douglas Preston) (1998)
  3. Death Match (2000)
  4. The Ice Limit (With: Douglas Preston) (2000)
  5. Utopia / Lethal Velocity (2002)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Gone Fishing (2017)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Dark Company (1984)
  2. Dark Banquet (1985)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Tales of the Dark (1987)
  2. FaceOff (2014)
  3. Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast (2014)

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Lincoln Child Books Overview

Relic

The book that started the New York Times bestselling collaboration of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. 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?

Reliquary

When police find two skeletons locked in a bony embrace deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid in the investigation. She soon realizes that the expertise the cops want is the result of her ordeal last year, battling the horrific beast loose in the baseme*nt corridors of the Museum. Because the skeletons show signs, not only of foul play, but of abnormalities point to thing: the awakening of a slumbering nightmare. Aided by Lieutenant D’Agosta, the enigmatic FBI agent Pendergast, and the brilliant scientist Dr. Frock, the search for answers will take Margo and her team far beneath the city of Manhattan, into an underworld few know exist – and fewer still would dare to go.

The Cabinet of Curiosities

In 19th century New York, the public flocked to collections of strange and grotesque oddities called ‘cabinets of curiosities.’ Now, in lower Manhattan, a modern apartment tower is slated to rise on the site of one of the old cabinets. But when the excavators break into a baseme*nt, they uncover a charnel pit of horror: the remains of 36 people murdered and gruesomely dismembered over 130 years ago by an unknown serial killer. In the aftermath, museum archaeologist Nora Kelly is visited by an enigmatic, silver eyed FBI agent who is obsessed with the mystery of the bodies. Together, Special Agent Pendergast and Nora Kelly embark on an investigation that will take them from the gleaming skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan to the crumbling archives of the museum, from a mass grave under a Chinatown brownstone to a house of abominations on Riverside Drive. Their search unearths the faint whisper of a mysterious doctor who once roamed the city…
a genius who carried out medical experiments on living human beings. But just as Nora and Pendergast begin to unravel the clues to the century old killings, a fresh spree of copy cat murders and surgical mutilation erupts around them.

Still Life with Crows

New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with a suspenseful midwest Gothic thriller about a serial killer who terrorizes a small town. Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is a stretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate. From the fields to the local caves, Pendergast discovers the remnants of a Prohibition era moonshine operation and the truth behind one of the town’s greatest mysteries: who was behind the Medicine Creek Massacre of 1865. Now, Pendergast must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four generation Kansas family before someone else is murdered.

Brimstone

Agent Pendergast returns in a new suspense thriller from New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of Brimstone is everywhere…
and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due. Teaming with Police Officer Vincent DAgosta The Relic, Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic. Their investigation takes them from the luxury estates of Long Island to the crumbling, legend shrouded castles of the Italian countryside, where Pendergast faces the most treacherous and dangerous adversary of his career. Preston and Childs most recent hardcover, Still Life with Crows Warner, 7/03, has close to 80,000 copies in print to date and hit the New York Times extended bestseller list. It will be published in Warner mass market in 7/04. The protagonist of Brimstone, Agent Pendergast, was introduced in the New York Times bestseller The Relic Tor, 1996, which sold over 910,000 paperback copies and was the basis for the Paramount movie. Both The Cabinet of Curiosities Warner, 6/02 and The Ice Limit Warner, 2000 hit the New York Times extended bestseller list and the USA TODAY list. The Cabinet of Curiosities was also a Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller. The authors five novels for Warner have more than two million copies in print combined. Available as a Time Warner AudioBook.

Dance of Death

FBI Special Agent Pendergast lives! Following the New York Times bestselling Brimstone like a one two punch, Dance of Death pits Pendergast against his most personal foe yet his brother Diogenes. Praised as a ‘ruthless descendant of Holmes’ Publishers Weekly, Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction’s most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal one who has had 20 years to plan the world’s most horrendous crime?

The Book of the Dead

DESCRIPTION: The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back…
ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was a popular museum exhibit until the 1930s, when it was quietly closed. But when the tomb is unsealed in preparation for its gala reopening, the killings and whispers of an ancient curse begin again. And the catastrophic opening itself sets the stage for the final battle between the two brothers: an epic clash from which only one will emerge alive.

The Wheel of Darkness

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 martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia, the world’s largest and most luxurious ocean liner and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.

Cemetery Dance

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 brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan‘s Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta undertake their own private and decidedly unorthodox quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.

Fever Dream

At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen’s tragic death, only to make a stunning and dreadful discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle her only protection from the beast had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead…
and why? With Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta’s assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife’s murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist painter John James Audubon, in particular a long lost painting of his known as the Black Frame. As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?

Cold Vengeance

Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife’s betrayers a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana he is also forced to dig further into Helen’s past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder. Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined and everything he’s believed, everything he’s trusted, everything he’s understood…
may be a horrific lie.

City of Endless Night

Audio CD, Grand Central Pub

Deep Storm

Twelve thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean…
scientists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is it the greatest archaeological find in history or the most terrifying?Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition spreading through the rig. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies far below on Deep Storm, a stunningly advanced science research facility built two miles beneath the surface on the ocean floor. The topsecret structure has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a recently discovered undersea site that may hold the answers to a mystery steeped in centuries of myth and speculation. Sworn to secrecy, Dr. Crane descends to Deep Storm. A year earlier, he is told, routine drilling uncovered the remains of mankind’s most sophisticated ancient civilization: the legendary Atlantis. But now that the site is being excavated, a series of disturbing illnesses has begun to affect the operation. Scientists and technicians are experiencing a bizarre array of symptoms from simple fatigue to violent psychotic episodes. As Crane is indoctrinated into the strange world of Deep Storm and commences his investigation, he begins to suspect that the covert facility conceals something more complicated than a medical mystery. The discovery of Atlantis might, in fact, be a cover for something far more sinister…
and deadly. Like Lincoln Child s spectacular bestsellers coauthored with Douglas Preston The Book of the Dead, Relic, Deep Storm melds scientific detail and gripping adventure in a superbly imagined, chillingly real journey into unknown territory. Child is a master of suspense, and Deep Storm is his most ambitious novel to date.

Terminal Freeze

A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world…

A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend…

An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child.

Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group of fellow scientists, an expedition to the Zone represents a once in a lifetime opportunity to study the effects of global warming.

Everything about the expedition changes, however, with an astonishing find. On a routine exploration of a glacial ice cave, the group discovers an enormous ancient animal, encased in solid ice. The media conglomerate sponsoring their research immediately intervenes and arranges the ultimate spectacle the creature will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed live on television. Despite dire warnings from the local Native American village, and the scientific concerns of Marshall and his team, the docudrama plows ahead…
until the scientists make one more horrifying discovery. The beast is no regular specimen it may be an ancient killing machine. And they may be premature in believing it dead.

In this riveting new thriller, Lincoln Child weaves together a stunning Arctic landscape, a terrifying mythic creature, and a pervasive mood of chaos and fear. With Terminal Freeze, Child demonstrates why he has become a major bestselling author, and why his novels electrify and enthrall so many.

Gideon’s Sword

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief

Gideon’s Sword

At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.

At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother’s bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.

Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father’s destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful.

But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon’s special skills. Someone who has need of just such a renegade.

For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning…

Gideon’s Corpse

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack. Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse far worse than mere Armageddon.

Thunderhead

Archaeologist Nora Kelly is adrift in her career and her personal life when a violent, inexplicable incident leaves her in possession of a mysterious letter. Written by her father, who vanished sixteen years ago in the remote desert, the letter reveals the location of a legendary site hidden in the red rock canyon country of southern Utah: Quivira, the Anasazi Indians’ wondrous lost city of gold. BOOK JACKET. ‘Convinced that her father truly had found Quivira, Nora puts together an expedition and takes a team up Lake Powell to the mouth of Serpentine Canyon. In the stark labyrinth of canyons and slickrock desert she will find the answer to both her greatest hopes and her deepest nightmare. For hidden in the shadows of the sunbaked cliffs are untold treasures, the solution to the greatest riddle of American archaeology and implacable, suffocating death.’ BOOK JACKET.

Mount Dragon (With: Douglas Preston)

Guy Carson is a brilliant scientist at GeneDyne, one of the world’s foremost biochemical companies. When he is transferred to Mount Dragon, GeneDyne’s high security genetic engineering lab, his good fortune seems too good to be true. Carson soon finds that it is. He learns that GeneDyne geneticists are tinkering with a common virus with an eye on the enormous profit to be had from a cure for the flu. Their cure involves permanently altering DNA in humans, and Carson’s job is to stabilize the virus. But Carson starts to wonder if this is justifiable, even for the most noble medical cause. Altering genes is a risky job, and the possibility of creating another killer virus is very real. What’s more, Mount Dragon harbors another secret that puts the world at horrifying risk.

Riptide (With: Douglas Preston)

For centuries, treasure hunters have sought the lost horde of the notorious English pirate, Edward Ockham. Clues led to the mysterious water pit on Ragged Island, Maine but a curse left behind by the long dead pirate still seems to be working. Every expedition has failed with the treasure seekers dying in gruesome fashion. Now, however, a new expedition has been mounted with state of the art computer technology and backed by millions of dollars. It will all be worth it if the treasure is found. But modern technology may not be enough to overcome the deadly secrets of the water pit.

Death Match

The Thorpes were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many secrets. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room having committed double suicide alarms go off in the executive offices of Eden, Incorporated, the worldwide matchmaking phenomenon that uses its astonishing artificial intelligence to create supercouples and guarantee its customers just one thing: lifelong happiness. Enter Christopher Lash, a gifted former FBI forensic psychologist who is brought in by Eden to perform a quick and quiet investigation. As Lash conducts his detailed psychological autopsy, he delves deep into the seemingly ordinary private lives of the Thorpes, all the while trying to suppress a personal tragedy of his own that has been kept buried in the past. But when another perfectly matched couple commits double suicide, Lash finds himself suddenly pulled in to the many hidden layers of Eden, Incorporated. It is an astonishing world one inhabited by Eden’s genius, reclusive founder, Richard Silver a world that inadvertently may bring Lash face to face with his own demons. With tremendous imagination and consummate skill, master thriller writer Lincoln Child renders a setting too frighteningly believable not to be real. Infused with sharp, cutting edge technology and a riveting pace, Death Match is Lincoln Child at his best.

The Ice Limit (With: Douglas Preston)

Billionaire Palmer Lloyd is accustomed to getting what he wants andwhat he wants for his new museum is the largest meteorite on earth. Unfortunately for Lloyd, it’s buried on an inhospitable Chilean island justnorth of the Ice Limit in the most brutal, unforgiving seas in the world. Fortunately for Lloyd, he knows people people like Eli Glinn, the hyper focusedpresident of Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc.; Glinn’s nonconformist,genius of a mathematician, Rachel Amira; and the uncannily able constructionengineer, Manuel Garza. Lloyd’s also tapped the brilliant but disgracedmeteorite hunter, Sam McFarlane, and the exceptional supertanker captain, SallyBritton, whose career was unshipped by intemperance and a reef. Of course, sucha team has a hefty price tag:Lloyd’s broad features narrowed. ‘And that is…
”One hundred and fifty million dollars. Including chartering the transport vessel. FOB the Lloyd Museum.’Lloyd’s face went pale. ‘My God. One hundred and fifty million…
‘ His chin sank onto his hands. ‘For a ten thousand ton rock. That’s…
”Seven dollars and fifty cents a pound,’ said Glinn. EES’s plan is to obtain mining rights to the island, secure the allegiance ofvarious Chilean functionaries via blinding sums of money, disguise a state of the art supertanker as a decrepit ore rig, mine the rock, slip it into the ship,and zip back to New York to thunderous notoriety. Unforeseen, however, are arogue Chilean naval captain, seas to make Sebastian Junger boot, and a blood redmeteorite of undetermined pedigree and a habit of discharging billions of voltsof electricity for no apparent reason. Like Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s earlier collaborations Relic,Thunderhead, and others, The Ice Limit tools along swiftly,blending nicely drawn characters excepting, regrettably, the book’s trueprotagonist, the meteorite, a reasonably exciting narrative, and enoughgraspable science and plausible seeming theories to bring readers happily up tospeed and keep them climax bound. Not the authors’ best effort, certainly, but a fine diversion nonetheless. Michael Hudson

Utopia / Lethal Velocity

Fasten your seat belts the white knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world on the cutting edge of technology. A theme park attracting 65,000 visitors each day, its dazzling array of robots and futuristic holograms make it a worldwide sensation. But ominous mishaps are beginning to disrupt the once flawless technology. A friendly robot goes haywire, causing panic, and a popular roller coaster malfunctions, nearly killing a teenaged rider. Dr. Andrew Warne, the brilliant computer engineer who designed much of the park s robotics, is summoned from the East Coast to get things back on track. On the day Warne arrives, however, Utopia is caught in the grip of something far more sinister. A group of ruthless criminals has infiltrated the park s computerized infrastructure, giving them complete access to all of Utopia s attractions and systems. Their communication begins with a simple and dire warning: If their demands are met, none of the 65,000 people in the park that day will ever know they were there; if not, chaos will descend, and every man, woman, and child will become a target. As one of the brains behind Utopia, Warne finds himself thrust into a role he never imagined trying to save the lives of thousands of innocent people. And as the minutes tick away, Warne s struggle to outsmart his opponents grows ever more urgent, for his only daughter is among the unsuspecting crowds in the park. Lincoln Child evokes the technological wonders of Utopia with such skill and precision it is hard to believe the park exists only in the pages of this extraordinary book. Like Jurassic Park, Utopia sweeps readers into a make believe world of riveting suspense, technology, and adventure. UTOPIA Where technology dazzles and then turns deadly!From the Hardcover edition.

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