Badlands

De: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before.

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.

good, but....

if we get only one Nora Kelly book a year, it needs to be longer. This one was too short and too easily figured out.

Poor narration

I had a hard time sticking with the story.
The narrator’s attempts to voice the characters is painful.
They all have a Thurston Howell undertone.

great story. these are my favorite authors but this was probably my favorite Nora Kelly book

these authors always put a twist into their storing and this did not disappoint. I enjoy the native American history and lore.

very descriptive

I found the book very geologically accurate and the story was very good i really enjoyed the book

Another great suspenseful interesting story by two of my favorite authors

I have been reading and now listening to Preston and child for many many years. I have enjoyed all of their novels all of their series and only have a complaint that in a couple books they seem to kill off dogs for no reason and that’s just a personal problem for me. Kill off all the people you want, but leave the dogs alone please. This one brings together two familiar characters in their unique quirks and backgrounds, and how they all interact together to figure out the mystery which with many of their books is always a little bit of a surprise, and I always appreciated that in all their books, they attended to use a handful of words that I have not come across before. This is the only drawback to an audiobook that I cannot write them down or look them up like I had with the Kindle but again Thing the narrator did an excellent job and the best thing I can say about that is that her voice never took me out of the story which to me as an ideal quality in a narrator