Agent Pendergast is a fictional character appearing in novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. 

He’s a brilliant FBI agent who’s maintained his southern manners and accent.

Stoically aloof and eccentric. Polite and charming.

A master of disguise. Speaking many languages.

All in all a fascinating character.

I’d not read any of the 20 novels before trying this 2021 book. I ASSuMEd it was a murder mystery. But should have guessed by the title that it was some kind of horror story.

In the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire.

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Enjoyable.

But Pendergast’s sidekick in this one — agent Coldmoon — is an unappealing bungler. No Watson.

I doubt I’ll read any more Bloodless by Preston & Child.

The 12th book in the series.

Perhaps my least favourite, so far. An intriguing plot — but the resulting story really didn’t work for me.

Cork O’Connor is sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Trickster’s Point, deep in the Minnesota wilderness.

With him is Jubal Little, who is favored to become the first Native American elected governor of Minnesota and who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart.

Although the men have been bow-hunting, a long-standing tradition among these two friends, this is no hunting accident. The arrow turns out to be one of Cork’s, and he becomes the primary suspect in the murder. …

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BEST book in the series, so far, I reckon. Mainly because it features rogue Nate Romanowski more than any other book. He’s the most fascinating character. I also like Wyoming State Governor

TripFiction:

TF: Off The Grid is the 16^th book in the Joe Pickett series. How do you manage to keep a series fresh and relevant without it becoming perhaps a little tired and formulaic?

CJB: Two reasons, I think and hope. The first is that each book in the series includes a real issue or concern beyond who-done-it.  In Off The Grid it’s domestic terrorism as well as a runaway grizzly that’s been stalking hunters.  Additionally, since the books take place in real time Joe Pickett, Nate, Marybeth, and family age and change. …

TF: Who are your favourite authors?

CJB: I’m a huge fan of Thomas McGuane, the late Jim Harrison, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, and too many biographers and historians to list here.  In the genre I never miss books by Michael Connelly, Denise Mina, John Sandford, and George Pelecanos. …

Thriller set in Wyoming – plus interview with best selling author, C J Box

Peter May is an excellent writer.

And this book is original enough and quirky enough to keep my attention.

A woman’s husband and his lover (?) are killed by a car bomb in Paris.

The French police rule out terrorism, suspecting murder – and sends Detective Sylvie Braque to shadow their prime suspect: the wife.

I found the ending disappointing, as have most readers.

Details.

Another excellent murder mystery.

When the Department of Energy puts an underground iron mine on its short list of potential sites for storage of nuclear waste, a barrage of protest erupts in Tamarack County, Minnesota, and Cork is hired as a security consultant.

Deep in the mine during his first day on the job, Cork stumbles across a secret room that contains the remains of six murder victims. Five appear to be nearly half a century old—connected to what the media once dubbed “The Vanishings,” a series of unsolved disappearances in the summer of 1964, when Cork’s father was sheriff in Tamarack County.

But the sixth has been dead less than a week.

What’s worse, two of the bodies—including the most recent victim—were killed using Cork’s own gun, one handed down to him from his father. …

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