I was running errands today; picking up some things for dinner, checking out Halloween decorations, getting desk calendars for 2024 and finishing up my latest audio book from the library, "Dead Mountain" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
"Dead Mountain" is the 4th book in a series with Archeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Nora made her first appearance in a Preston/Child book called Thunderhead, then I encountered her in a few Pendergast books "Cabinet of Curiosities", Dance of the Dead, The Book of the Dead and Cemetary Dance. I was very pleased when this "series" started, I missed Nora and with "Old Bones" she's starting over, no spoilers!
Corrie was a big part of the Pendergast book, "Still Life With Crows", she's made appearances in "Dance of the Dead", " Cold Vengeance", "Two Graves", "White Fire", "Blue Labyrinth" and "Crimson Shore". It's nice that she's grown up and has a partner of sorts!
I love Preston and Child books, the first one I remember reading was "Riptide", all about a treasure vault on an island of the coast of Maine, if this sounds vaguely familiar there is an island called Oak Island...fiction and a real event!
The story of "Dead Mountain" immediately reminded me of an episode of "Expedition Unknown" with Josh Gates on the Discovery Channel. He went to the Ural Mountains to investigate the mystery at Dyatlov Pass where in February of 1959 nine Soviet hikers, college students met untimely deaths, to this day their deaths remain a mystery. I have to admit, "Dead Mountain" has a more satisfying conclusion.
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