Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child is the ninth Pendergast novel. It came out in May 2009.
It was an interesting read, but I don’t think as good as past novels. The story revolves around a cult that has been squatting in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan. Bill Smithback, who has been featured in other novels, is murdered by a “zombie” that is linked to the cult. Perndergast and Vinnie D’Agosta spend the remainder of the book searching down clues and trying to make sense of bizarre killings including Smithback’s.
Cemetery Dance is a good summer read to pass the time. The most interesting parts of the book to me were the descriptions of parts of Manhattan that I have never been to before and that are only visible from the water. One day I would like to take a boat around Manhattan going into the kills, canals and around the islands.
