Where to Start with Douglas Preston
- Best entry point → Jennie
- Start the Pendergast series → Relic
- Underrated but highly rated → Dance of Death
- What fans keep coming back to → Reliquary
- Best narrator for Douglas Preston → Brimstone
- Highest rated by listeners → Still Life With Crows (Pendergast #4)
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Still Life With Crows
Pendergast • Book 4
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.46 ABR Score (47.7K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (42.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (5.6K)More about this pick
Cornfields become killing grounds when a serial killer terrorizes rural Kansas in this atmospheric Pendergast mystery. Scott Brick's steady pacing builds dread as FBI agent Pendergast hunts something darker than human evil.
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Reliquary
Pendergast • Book 2
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 4.28 ABR Score (59.0K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (50.8K) ★ 4.35 Audible (8.2K)More about this pick
Manhattan's forgotten tunnel system harbors grotesque secrets when deformed skeletons surface and the Museum Beast returns for a sequel. Dick Hill's narration heightens the claustrophobic dread as Margo Green descends into the city's underground nightmare.
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Dance of Death
Pendergast • Book 6
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.52 ABR Score (40.0K ratings)★ 4.2 Goodreads (35.7K) ★ 4.67 Audible (4.2K)More about this pick
Agent Pendergast faces his most personal enemy yet—his own brother Diogenes—in a deadly game of cat and mouse through New York's cultural institutions.
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The Book of the Dead
Pendergast • Book 7
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.45 ABR Score (45.1K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (39.8K) ★ 4.55 Audible (5.3K)More about this pick
While Pendergast rots in maximum security prison, his psychotic brother prepares to unleash an ancient Egyptian curse on New York City.
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Brimstone
Pendergast • Book 5
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.38 ABR Score (48.7K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (43.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (5.1K)More about this pick
Bodies appear burned from the inside with claw marks on walls and brimstone in the air, pulling FBI Agent Pendergast into a case that seems supernatural.
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Thunderhead
Nora Kelly #0A
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.31 ABR Score (37.8K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (32.5K) ★ 4.38 Audible (5.4K)More about this pick
Archaeologist Nora Kelly leads an expedition into Utah's canyons searching for a lost Anasazi city that vanished mysteriously centuries ago. Scott Brick's performance captures both the adventure and scientific wonder.
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Relic
Pendergast • Book 1
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Jefferson Mays
★ 4.48 ABR Score (117.1K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (116.2K) ★ 4.83 Audible (870)More about this pick
The Natural History Museum becomes a hunting ground for an impossible predator that removes victims' hypothalamuses, while museum researcher Margo Green searches for answers among ancient artifacts. A monster stalks the halls as science confronts the unexplainable.
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