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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1995
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Agent Pendergast

1 - Relic (Feb-1995)
2 - Reliquary (May-1997)
3 - The Cabinet of Curiosities (Jun-2002)
4 - Still Life With Crows (Jul-2003)
5 - Brimstone (Aug-2004)
6 - Dance of Death (Jun-2005)
7 - The Book of the Dead (Jun-2006)
8 - The Wheel of Darkness (Jan-2007)
9 - Cemetery Dance (May-2009)
10 - Fever Dream (May-2010)
11 - Cold Vengeance (Aug-2011)
11.5 - Extraction (Oct-2012)
12 - Two Graves (Dec-2012)
13 - White Fire (Nov-2013)
14 - Blue Labyrinth (Nov-2014)
15 - Crimson Shore (Nov-2015)
16 - The Obsidian Chamber (Oct-2016)
17 - City of Endless Night (Jan-2018)
18 - Verses for the Dead (Dec-2018)
19 - Crooked River (Feb-2020)
20 - Bloodless (Aug-2021)
21 - The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Jan-2023)
22 - Angel of Vengeance (Jan-2024)

Diogenes

1 - Brimstone (Aug-2004)
2 - Dance of Death (Jun-2005)
3 - The Book of the Dead (Jun-2006)

Gideon Crew

1 - Gideon's Sword (Mar-2011)
2 - Gideon's Corpse (Jan-2012)
3 - The Lost Island (Aug-2014)
4 - Beyond the Ice Limit (May-2016)
5 - The Pharaoh Key (Jun-2018)

Margo Green & Vincent D'Agosta

1 - Relic (Feb-1995)
2 - Reliquary (May-1997)
3 - Gone Fishing (Jun-2006)

Nora Kelly

1 - Old Bones (Aug-2019)
2 - The Scorpion's Tail (Jan-2021)
3 - Diablo Mesa (Feb-2022)
4 - Dead Mountain (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 37 titles



  • 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 muse...



  • Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionar...



  • Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud...



  • TIDE OF OBSESSION Three hundred years ago a pirate buried his bounty on a treacherousisland off the coast of Maine. Now a high-tech treasure hunter is bringing his million-dollar recovery team to Ragged Island. TIDE OF DANGER They have the b...



  • RUMBLES OF THE PAST On an abandoned Santa Fe ranch a young archaeologist finds a letter written sixteen years ago yet, mysteriously, mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a lost city of gold that will make him famous-a...



  • On a desolate island off the coast of southern Chile, the largest known meteorite has been found, entombed in the earth for millions of years. In New York, a billionaire decides he must have this incredible find for himself, no matter what the cost. ...



  • In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize...



  • A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with he need to destroy? Or it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of Amer...



  • A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ag...






  • Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can... Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction...



  • An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown... ...



  • PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...



  • A luxury ocean liner on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic, awash in wealth and decadence... An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning... An FBI agent destined to confront what he fears most--himsel...



  • 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 attack...



  • Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder...



  • 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, Gi...



  • 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 street...



  • 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 jus...



  • In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night....he's a mysterious old recluse who must be appeased with teeth--lest he extract retribution. When young Diogenes Pendergast loses a...






  • For twelve years, he believed she died in an accident. Then, he was told she'd been murdered. Now, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife Helen is alive. But their reunion is cut short when Helen is brazenly abducted be...



  • Corrie Swanson sets out to solve a long-forgotten mystery. In 1876, in a remote mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed in devastating grizzly bear attacks. Now the town has become an exclusive ski resort a...



  • Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now o...



  • Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel BLUE LABYRINTH A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysi...



  • A secret chamber. A mysterious shipwreck. A murder in the desolate salt marshes. A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pen...



  • That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five yea...



  • A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A SHOCKING RETURN Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats t...



  • In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Special Agent Pendergast must stop a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City with a trail of headless victims. When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first...



  • Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a di...



  • FBI SPECIAL AGENT PENDERGAST MUST CONFRONT A STRANGE, OTHERWORLDLY CIRCUMSTANCE -- A NEW PARTNERSHIP -- IN THE LATEST ENTRY IN PRESTON & CHILD’S #1 BESTSELLING SERIES. After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI’s New York office, Special Agent...






  • The first in the groundbreaking Nora Kelly series from #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child blends the legend of the Donner party with a riveting suspense tale, taking the dynamic duo's work to new heights. Nora Kelly, a young but successfu...



  • Racing to uncover the mystery of several light green-shoe-clad severed feet found floating in the Gulf of Mexico, Agent Pendergast is faced with the most inexplicable challenge of his career in this installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series. A ...



  • #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child return with the latest book in the new series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Following the acclaimed debut of OLD BONES, this second "happily anticipated" new thrille...



  • Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA, in this next installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series. A legendary heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijack...



  • #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the next book featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches th...



  • Following the events of Bloodless, the "exciting" and "nail-biting" new thriller in Preston & Child's #1 bestselling series will once again feature FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast and Constance Greene. Against all odds, Constance has found ...



  • In Colorado near the Cheyenne Mountains, a team of topflight engineers venture on an ambitious cross country ski trip, using their newly invented outdoor equipment. The strapping group of young people are having the adventure of their lives -- skiing...



  • Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer: Pendergast’s own ancestor…and Constance’s greatest enemy....


Award-Winning Books by Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

Mount Dragon
1999 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 9-12)
Relic
1998 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 9-12)


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child has published 37 books.

Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Angel of Vengeance, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child, Relic, was published in February 1995.

Yes. Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child has 5 series.