My Goodreads review: Blue Labyrinth

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Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Preston & Child tie up a whole macramé project’s worth of loose ends in this fourteenth Agent Pendergast thriller – and, by & large, they do a very solid job of it.

When the first corpse shows up by page four (and on Pendergast’s doorstep!), readers know they’re in for an E Ticket ride. In this case, the ride involves a dark plunge into the agent’s family history. Ever wondered where Pendergast really gets his money? Or how his ward Constance Greene fits into the family picture? Or whether the venerable New York Museum of Natural History can survive yet another murder investigation?

Like most of the later entries in this series, this one is aimed at the faithful. Vincent D’Agosta, Dr. Margo Green, and several other continuing characters all struggle to resolve a lethal threat to Pendergast himself, even as the action moves from New York to California to Brazil and beyond. Tidbits of esoteric knowledge are doled out. Weapons both standard and wildly improbable are deployed with devastating results, and one of the nastier villains in recent series history schemes and betrays his way through Pendergast’s friends and family.

Constance fans are in for a special treat. Otherwise, it’s pretty much what we’ve come to expect: nonstop action, quirky but sympathetic characters, deeply weird plot twists, and plenty of mysteries left over for next time. (Whew!)




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