Dead Mountain

By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, where a fateful trip to New Mexico uncovers a case that may prove impossible to solve.

In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their last campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing body parts. The case, given the code name “Dead Mountain” by the FBI, was never solved.

Now, two more bodies from the lost expedition are unexpectedly discovered in a cave, one a grisly suicide. Young FBI Agent Corrie Swanson teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate what really happened on that fateful trip fifteen years ago—and to find the ninth victim. But their search awakens a long-slumbering evil, which pursues Corrie and Nora with a vengeance, determined to prevent the final missing corpse from ever coming to light.

©2023 Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (P)2023 Grand Central Publishing

A different take of a tragic story from another “Dead Mountain “

If you have ever hear of or read anything about the Dyatlov Pass - a true story that happened in Russia in 1959 then this story line will be familiar. Except this time it happens in New Mexico- overall a good read . The only complaint that I have is the narrator which made listening to this almost painful . Next time I see this narrator reading a book I will elect to read it instead

Terrible Narrator good story

Not sure I can finish listening. Might have to buy it as a Kindle book. The narration borders on painful.

First Rate Thriller

I had been getting a little tired of the writing, and thinking it was over the top recently, they totally pulled this one off. One of their best I am so happy to say that because I was big fans and was getting a little disenchanted with recent writings

Too much

The bad sheriff character is over done and Nora’s brother is portrayed as too much of an idiot.
The rest of the story is great and I wish they had toned the side story.

Great listen. A twisty story with good development

A Nora Kelly novel that focused mostly on Corrie Swanson. -worth a listen. /grins

Good book, good narrator

Pretty good story, well worth the credits paid. Chalk up another one to Preston & Child

Great Book Bad Narrator

Story was good but the narrator could have been much better while reading the story

Intrigued.

I agree with most of the other reviews. I think Corey should get her own series. I think the authors had a good idea when they started the series, but this felt more like an 'Agent Swanson Mystery' than a Nora Kelly Novel.

I liked it!

I was surprised at the bad ratings given this book. I thought it was good. It wasn’t as complicated as most of them are, but sometimes I’m glad of that. They could have strung out the guys chasing her, or added some grotesque torture, but I don’t think it needed it as long as everything got resolved in the end.

They’re right about the performance though. I’ve listened to several books she’s narrated, but I finally got used to it. It was distracting at first that she strings out the “s” sounds like a snake hissing, & seems to be kind of out of breath.

Great book! Bad narrator

I’ve read everything these authors have written and love every book! They have used different narrators along the years. The earlier books were done really well. This lady they have used recently is really annoying. The guy reading their Jeremy Logan books is also really annoying. But the books are so good that I listen anyway