Recommendations based on Dance of Deathby Douglas Preston

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  1. The Book of the Dead

    by Douglas Preston
    An archaeological excavation leads to a dark discovery in the Egyptian desert.

    Az ​egyiptomi piramisok mélyén megbúvó ősi sírkamrák, a kincsek és a múmiák mellett, sok talányt is őriznek – olykor még a fáraók átkát is. Ez még akkor is igaznak tűnhet, ha a hajdani sírboltot ... (Goodreads)

  2. Brimstone

    by Douglas Preston
    A thrilling mystery that takes the reader on a journey of suspense and suspenseful action.

    FBI Special Agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast and Sergeant Vincent D'Agosta , now working for the Southampton Police Department, investigate a series of unusual deaths—deaths that appear to be the work ... (Wikipedia)

  3. Still Life With Crows

    by Douglas Preston
    A detective story of murder and mayhem, set in a small rural town.

    Agent Pendergast visits Medicine Creek, Kansas after a gruesome murder occurs. With the help of local teenaged misfit Corrie Swanson, he continues to investigate as more citizens are killed. ... (Wikipedia)

  4. Map of Bones

    by James Rollins
    A thrilling adventure to unravel a hidden secret and save humanity.

    The bones lead to ancient mysteries and present-day terror . . . To follow them means death. During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of ... (Goodreads)

  5. Black Order

    by James Rollins
    A thrilling adventure across the globe, uncovering secrets of a mysterious ancient order.

    Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0752876457 ISBN13: 9780752876450. A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson ... (Goodreads)

  6. Death Match

    by Lincoln Child
    Detective investigates a series of mysterious deaths that leads to a complex and sinister conspiracy.

    When a perfect couple commits double suicide, alarms go off in the offices of the high-tech matchmaking company. Investigation into a second couple's double suicide reveals a stunning labyrinth of ... (Goodreads)

  7. Excavation

    by James Rollins
    An archaeological adventure involving a hunt for an ancient civilization's hidden secrets.

    High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled ... (Goodreads)

  8. 11/22/63

    by Stephen King
    A time-traveler attempts to prevent the assassination of JFK.

    Jake Epping is a recently divorced high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine , earning extra money teaching a GED class. Epping gives an assignment to his adult students, asking them to ... (Wikipedia)

  9. Shadow of Night

    by Deborah Harkness
    A time-traveling adventure through Elizabethan England, uncovering secrets of the past.

    Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, ... (Goodreads)

  10. Terminal Freeze

    by Lincoln Child
    A team of scientists and soldiers discover a prehistoric creature frozen in the Arctic ice, but it's not dead. It's hungry.

    The events take place in Alaska , north of the Arctic Circle . A decommissioned military base located near the fictional Mount Fear, the Mount Fear Remote Sensing Installation, is being used by a ... (Wikipedia)

  11. Invisible Prey

    by John Sandford
    Lucas Davenport investigates a high-profile murder case involving a wealthy family, uncovering dark secrets and dangerous alliances.

    In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen. It's clearly a random break-in by someone ... (Goodreads)

  12. The Templar Legacy

    by Steve Berry
    Archaeologists uncover a long-lost secret about the Templars, as a race against time ensues.

    The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden ... (Goodreads)

  13. Utopia

    by Lincoln Child
    A group of strangers embark on a mysterious journey, uncovering secrets of a strange and unknown world.

    Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times ... (Goodreads)

  14. The Passage

    by Justin Cronin
    A post-apocalyptic tale of survival, as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

    The novel is broken into 11 parts of varying lengths. The story itself is broken into two sections: the first and shorter section covers the origins of the virus and its outbreak, while the second is ... (Wikipedia)

  15. The Lost World

    by Michael Crichton
    Explorers uncover a prehistoric world and use science to battle its inhabitants.

    In 1993, four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm – who is revealed to have survived the events of the previous novel , despite being declared dead ... (Wikipedia)

  16. Treasure of Khan

    by Clive Cussler
    An adventure of espionage and high-stakes treasure hunting for the lost fortune of Genghis Khan.

    A relatively small oil company headed by Borjin, a Mongolian who is bent on taking control of the world oil market and re-uniting the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia (where he has found ... (Wikipedia)

  17. The Bourne Supremacy

    by Robert Ludlum
    An ex-CIA agent must clear his name from charges of espionage and murder.

    In the first book,, The Bourne Identity, , the title character suffers amnesia . Over the course of the book, he regains his memory with the help of a Canadian economist, Marie St Jacques, and ... (Wikipedia)

  18. The Broken Window

    by Jeffery Deaver
    A twisted killer uses data mining to commit crimes. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must race against time to stop him.

    In the book, a killer has access to the world's greatest data miner called Strategic Systems Datacorp. He is using detailed information to commit crimes and blame them on innocents. Lincoln Rhyme, ... (Wikipedia)

  19. Too Close to Home

    by Linwood Barclay
    A family's life is turned upside down when a teenage girl goes missing in their small town. Secrets and lies are uncovered as they search for her.

    Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than ever before in a thriller where murder strikes in the place we feel safest of all. Promise Falls isn't ... (Goodreads)

  20. Duma Key

    by Stephen King
    A man moves to a remote island to recover from a traumatic accident and discovers his artistic talent has a dark power.

    Wealthy Minnesotan building-contractor Edgar Freemantle barely survives a severe work-site accident wherein his truck is crushed by a crane. Freemantle loses his right arm, and suffers severe head ... (Wikipedia)

  21. The Serpent's Tale

    by Ariana Franklin
    A medieval mystery novel following Adelia Aguilar, a female doctor, as she investigates a series of murders in a convent.

    Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling second novel in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, featuring medieval ... (Goodreads)

  22. The Book of Air and Shadows

    by Michael Gruber
    A literary thriller about a lost Shakespeare manuscript and the dangerous secrets it holds.

    Set concurrently in the 17th century and the current century, the novel is an intriguing and complex thriller based around the mystery of William Shakespeare . Jake Mishkin, a lonely and troubled ... (Wikipedia)

  23. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

    by Elizabeth Peters
    Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family investigate a murder in Egypt, uncovering a web of secrets and danger.

    After returning from their adventure at the Lost Oasis, the Emersons try to get Nefret , their new ward, integrated into English country life. She has difficulty with the immaturity and meanness of ... (Wikipedia)

  24. The Green Mile

    by Stephen King
    A prison guard discovers the power of redemption, and miracles, when he meets a mysterious inmate.

    Featuring a first-person narrative told by Paul Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines nursing home writing down his story in 1996, and his time in 1932 as the ... (Wikipedia)

  25. The Venetian Betrayal

    by Steve Berry
    A thrilling adventure through the streets of Venice, as protagonist Cotton Malone races to uncover a deadly conspiracy.

    In 323 BC Babylon, Alexander the Great executes his physician for failing to save his friend Hephaestion using a mysterious draught, and reveals that he has a fever that could well kill him without ... (Wikipedia)

  26. Rule of Two

    by Drew Karpyshyn
    The Sith Lord Darth Bane trains his apprentice, adhering to the Rule of Two, which states that there can only be two Sith at a time.

    Darth Bane, still on the planet Ruusan, finds his apprentice Zannah, a girl only 10 years old. Together they decide to see the effects of the thought bomb, and journey into the catacombs where it ... (Wikipedia)

  27. The Deeds of the Disturber

    by Elizabeth Peters
    Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family investigate a series of murders in Victorian-era Egypt.

    Immediately after their adventure in, Lion in the Valley, , the Emersons return home to England for the summer of 1896, as is their custom. Upon their arrival, Amelia finds that her despised brother ... (Wikipedia)

  28. Seven Deadly Wonders

    by Matthew Reilly
    An international team embarks on an adventure to unlock the mysteries of a legendary and powerful ancient artifact.

    Around 4,500 years ago, the capstone upon the summit of the Great Pyramid of Giza absorbed the energy released by the Tartarus Rotation (a monstrous sunspot that occurs every 4,000–4,500 years), and ... (Wikipedia)

  29. Along Came a Spider

    by James Patterson
    A detective races against time to solve a kidnapper's twisted game.

    What have we got? A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school ... (Goodreads)

  30. The Last Camel Died at Noon

    by Elizabeth Peters
    A young woman sets out on a daring mission to rescue her kidnapped father in the Nile Valley.

    Bestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids. ... (Goodreads)