Fever Dream
2010 • 559 pages

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At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why? With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle-the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou-he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?


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6 primary books

#10 in Pendergast

Pendergast is a 6-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

#4
Still Life With Crows
#10
Fever Dream
#11
Cold Vengeance
#15
Crimson Shore
#17
City of Endless Night

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3 primary books

#1 in Helen

Helen is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

#1
Fever Dream
#2
Cold Vengeance
#3
Two Graves

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