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Badlands

Douglas J. Preston

Lincoln Child

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"In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found-and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands-lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or ... sacrifice? Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found-exactly like the other-the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price"--

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Title Statement Badlands / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.
Series Nora Kelly novel ;5
Author Preston, Douglas J
Additional Contributors Child, Lincoln
Publication New York: Grand Central Publishing,2025.
Edition First edition.
Extent of Item 355 pages ;
ISBN 9781538765821 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07932095
Summary "In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found-and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands-lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or ... sacrifice? Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found-exactly like the other-the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Archaeologists--Fiction
Badlands--Fiction
Good and evil--Fiction
Murder--Fiction--Investigation
Women archaeologists--Fiction
By Name Kelly, Nora
United StatesFederal Bureau of Investigation--Fiction--Officials and employees
By Location New Mexico--Fiction
By Genre Thrillers (Fiction)
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