Okay so I thought I might have been a little hard on Douglas Preston and the Monster of Florence so I picked up one of his older mystery books just to see how he usually writes.Holy Crap! This book is awesome. I just picked it up on Saturday and I'll probably finish it today. It's been a while since I've read a mystery/police/FBI book so this one has me completely enthralled. It's creepy, unpredictable, not too gory, and a page turner.
It's about some old bones that are found during a construction excavation and how those old bones relate to a string of new murders in NYC. I think this is the 3rd or 4th book in a series of books that have this mysterious guy, Agent Pendergrast, as the chief investigator. There is a little bit of back story from the other books that is over my head, but not enough to distract me from the juicy story.
It's got all the cool creepy backdrops..... old archives at a musuem, old buildings, deserted streets, a Jack-the Ripper type bad guy, and just a slight tinge of romance. Like I said I haven't finished it yet, but I don't think I'll be able to keep myself away from it for too long today. I usually try not to read until after 3:00, but I might have to break the rules today.
It's obvious that Douglas Preston's strength in not in the real life crime book, but the fiction book. There are still a lot of facts and figures, but there is more story and people in this book than in the Monster of Florence. I highly recommend this book and will probably have to go out and buy the previous books in the series jsut to try and figure out some more about this guy Pendergrast. He's a very interesting character because he is so ambiguous.
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