Verses for the Dead: This may be the best of the Pendergast series. The ending is so spectacular; you’ll have to read more of this FL swamp-Everglades setting. You’ll love this book!

The mysterious Agent Pendergast is back again, but this time his new boss in the NYC office wants him to play it by the book, and insists that he now work with a partner, Coldmoon. Somewhat reluctantly, Pendergast agrees, but can he really work with a partner? His career at the FBI is on the line. They are investigating a series of murders in Miami, the clues point to a link to women who have committed suicide. Pendergast is on the trail, and visiting the sites of the suicides that happened more than a decade ago. His boss is frustrated, his new partner, mystified, and the reader wonders how he will put it all together.

This is one the the best books in the Pendergast series that I’ve read and the ending is spectacular, in the dark and mysterious swamps of Florida’s interior. I loved it and I highly recommend it.

VERSES FOR THE DEAD (AGENT PENDERGAST)
By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Genre: Thriller

Special Agent Pendergast has a new boss who is determined to make our favorite agent tow the line or face being transferred to some obscure location in the middle of no where. To make matters worse, A.X.L Pendergast is saddled with a young man who is hoping to make his own mark in the FBI. A high profile serial killer is on the loose in Miami leaving gifts on the graves of long dead suicides.

The book is so easy to read! Preston and Child write so well as a team.. the reader would never guess who is writing which part of the thriller. Always with the right amount of mystery and thrills to have the reader staying up way past one’s bedtime as they only have a few more pages left. The book is a total stand alone!

I highly recommend VERSES FOR THE DEAD (AGENT PENDERGAST)!! I love that we have several new characters introduced into the series! The dynamic duo always delivers a must read thriller! This particular novel refreshes the reader and one sees a whole other side of Agent Pendergast. The story is one heckuva a thrilling adventure! Nothing appears simple, but extremely complex.. and there seems to be a real struggle that Agent Pendergast may have met his match in a serial killer who is unlike any that he’s investigated before. Another old favorite character is somewhat revived with his brother being a reporter in Miami. Smithback!!!! One of the best in the series!! Loved, loved, loved this story!!!