Pendergast (Lincoln Child) Books in Order

Just days before a major museum exhibition opens in New York, visitors begin dying in brutal, impossible ways. Researcher Margo Green, Lieutenant D'Agosta, and the enigmatic Agent Pendergast race to stop a killer that may not be human.

A fresh wave of savage killings pulls Pendergast, D'Agosta, and Margo back into the nightmare beneath New York. To stop it, they have to descend into the city's hidden tunnels and face what survived the horrors of Relic.

A construction dig uncovers a grisly cabinet of bodies, and soon Manhattan is facing murders that copy a century-old crime spree. Pendergast and D'Agosta chase a case of medical obsession, secret experiments, and one of the series' coldest villains.

Pendergast arrives in a quiet Kansas town where ritualistic murders are tearing through the cornfields. As fear spreads, he and teenage Corrie Swanson uncover a violence rooted far deeper than the current killings.

An art critic is found burned to death in a locked room, with the stink of sulfur and a hoofprint left behind. Pendergast follows the case from elite New York circles to Italy, searching for a human answer to a devilish crime.

Pendergast's brilliant brother Diogenes steps out of the shadows and turns murder into a personal challenge. With Pendergast framed and hunted, D'Agosta must help stop a perfect crime years in the making.

While Pendergast sits in a high-security prison, Diogenes prepares a catastrophic strike tied to a reopened Egyptian tomb. It is a big, nasty finale built on curses, museum politics, and family war.

Pendergast must track a dangerous Tibetan relic from a remote monastery to a luxury ocean liner crossing the Atlantic. The hunt becomes a claustrophobic battle over an artifact tied to fear, madness, and the darkest parts of the mind.

When journalist William Smithback is murdered inside his own home, the case feels personal and impossible. Pendergast follows the trail into New York's underworld of hoodoo, revenge, and something that looks disturbingly like a living nightmare.

Pendergast learns that his wife Helen did not die in an accident after all, and the discovery breaks open a conspiracy years old. His search for the truth turns grief into a relentless quest for vengeance.

Still chasing Helen's killers, Pendergast follows the trail from Scotland to New York and Louisiana. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that Helen kept secrets of her own.

In this short Pendergast tale, young Aloysius and his brother Diogenes test the sinister Tooth Fairy legend haunting the French Quarter. What starts as childish curiosity turns dark with alarming speed.

After Helen is abducted before his eyes, Pendergast tears across the country and into Mexico to get her back. The trail leads toward Manhattan murders, old enemies, and a final reckoning in South America.

Corrie Swanson's work in a Colorado mining town exposes links between long-ago bear killings, a lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a present-day arsonist. Pendergast arrives just as the town's buried history starts turning lethal.

When one of Pendergast's most feared enemies turns up dead on his doorstep, a clue of turquoise sends him into his own family's past. The result is a revenge plot that attacks him where he is most vulnerable.

A simple theft case brings Pendergast and Constance Greene to the seaside town of Exmouth, where a hidden skeleton opens a much older mystery. Witch legends, marshland murders, and old secrets close in fast.

With Pendergast missing and presumed dead, his loyal bodyguard Proctor becomes the one man able to chase a kidnapper across the globe. Meanwhile, Constance Greene is dragged into a nightmare from the past.

A wealthy young woman is found murdered and decapitated in New York, and soon more victims follow. Pendergast and D'Agosta face a killer whose plan threatens the city itself.

Pendergast is forced to work with new partner Agent Coldmoon when a killer begins staging bodies and leaving eerie verses behind. Their uneasy alliance powers a clever murder investigation with real bite.

Severed feet begin washing ashore on Sanibel Island, and the puzzle is grotesque even by Pendergast standards. The trail leads into disturbing medical territory and toward an adversary with a cruel agenda.

Bloodless bodies in Savannah revive whispers of a vampire, while a second thread reaches back to the D. B. Cooper hijacking. Pendergast and Coldmoon have to connect folklore, crime, and something far stranger.

Constance Greene finds a way back to nineteenth-century New York and tries to change her family's fate. In the present, Pendergast desperately searches for a way to reach her before Dr. Enoch Leng does.

Constance Greene and Pendergast push deeper into the battle against the monstrous Dr. Enoch Leng. Vengeance, family loyalty, and Diogenes Pendergast's own schemes collide in a dark historical showdown.

This full-length prequel returns to the start of Agent Pendergast's career, when a grieving Special Agent Dwight Chambers is forced to mentor him. A strange Mississippi murder becomes the pair's first truly terrible case.