The Relic - Preston/Child - Review

Are you ready for a really frightening book? I mean, really, really frightening, the kind you don't want to be reading when you're home alone at night? Not just weird or creepy, like some of the Stephen King stuff, but honest -to -God -I've -got -goosebumps -and -I -think -I -just -heard -something -in -the -basement kind of scary. If so, then Relic (Preston-Childs) is for you.

Say hello to Detective Pendergast from the FBI, in New York investigating several gruesome murders in the New York Museum of Natural History that are similar to some he investigated in New Orleans years earlier. Helped along by incompetent blundering from the type of people you would expect if from, the monster is lose and ripping folks to shreds inside the museum. With never a dull moment, this fast-paced story steadily grows in intensity up until the final moments. There are even a few twists at the end, which will set you up for the next book in the series.

While not a true series, the Pendergast books are inter-connected through characters and events that have been published in previous novels. The books were published in the following sequence (from Wikipedia - not a complete list):

• Relic (1995)
• Reliquary (1997)
• The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
• Still Life with Crows (2003)
• Brimstone (2004)
• Dance of Death (2005)
• The Book of the Dead (2006)
• The Wheel of Darkness (2007)

Don't miss this one!

    Description from Amazon:

Relic (Pendergast, Book 1)
Description from Amazon:

A series of bizarre and brutal murders is taking place in the halls of the New York Museum of Natural History, only days before a massive exhibition is set to open. Margo Green knows that the killer is something not human, something that's not even supposed to exist. Where did it come from, how did it get into the museum, and how can it be stopped?