Cemetery Dance is the new Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child novel with FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. If you read Preston/Child novels, you know Pendergast. If you don’t read Preston/Child novels, don’t start here, start at the beginning with Relic and Reliquary in which Pendergast is a supporting character. Then dig into Cabinets of Curiosities where he stars.
Pendergast is a odd duck. Originally from New Orleans, is from a wealth family, Harvard graduate in Anthropology, and a PhD from Oxford in Classics and Philosophy; this is not your ordinary FBI agent. Not even for mystery novels this is not your ordinary FBI agent.
Preston/Child dabbles in the supernatural with each book. In Cemetery Dance it is Zombies. In each case, Pendergast keeps us certain that these things do not exist. Lincoln/Child novels are more thriller then mystery and very well written. They are mysteries for those who only read novels. Not just the Pendergast books; Preston and Child are just good writers worthy of wanting to get wrapped up in a book.