Series
Pendergast
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child · 29 novels · 2 short stories · 1995–2026
The Pendergast novels follow Aloysius Pendergast, an eccentric, aristocratic FBI agent with a taste for antique weapons, dead languages, and cases that blend serial-murder investigation with historical conspiracy and his own family's dark past. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's long-running series, beginning with Relic in 1995 and organized loosely into several internal trilogies, has grown past twenty books largely set in and around New York City, with Pendergast traveling internationally as each case demands.
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The order the books came out.
- Nora Kelly(6 works)
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Pendergast at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1990s3
- 2000s8
- 2010s11
- 2020s9
Shape
29 novels · 2 short stories
2 authors
reads like:thriller & suspensemurder investigationnorth americacontemporarytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 97% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book29 of 31 works carry a tone
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- Reliquarydarkest
- Thunderheadbrightest
- Still Life with Crowscalmest
- Badlandsmost intense