Douglas Jerome Preston is an American journalist and author best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child (including the Agent Pendergast series}. 

We’re featuring our 5-to-1 ranking system where 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. This list will be updated accordingly.

5-Star Ranking – Book of the Year

• Relic (1995) – Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta, Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, and graduate student Margo Green investigates a series of strange murders and rumors of a murderous beast in the New York Museum of Natural History.

4-Star Ranking – Top 10 Worthy

• Reliquary (1997) – Captain Vincent D’Agosta, Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, and Dr. Margo Green team up to investigate a series of murders after the discovery of two headless skeletons are found in the Humboldt Kill leading to the suspicion of a second Mbwun monster. 

3-Star Ranking – Entertaining Read

• The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002) – When an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies–all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city.
• Still Life with Crows (2003) – Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome murder of a woman in Medicine Creek, Kansas with the help of local teenaged misfit Corrie Swanson, discovering that the murders are connected to an old curse.

2-Star Ranking – Could’ve Been Better

• NA

1-Star Ranking – Total Garbage

• NA

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