Cemetery Dance

Cemetery Dance is the ninth book in the Agent Pendergast series. Released on May 12, 2009, it was the first Preston-Child novel to be published by Grand Central Publishing, the new name of the Warner Books subsidiary of the Hachette Book Group. It is the thirteenth collaborative Preston-Child novel, and debuted in its peak spot of #2 on the New York Times Best Seller list on May 31, 2009.

Plot Summary
"Pendergast—the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent—returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult.""William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor—a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private—and decidedly unorthodox—quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and Vôdou which no outsiders have ever survived."-Publishers synopsis

First Appearances

 * Kyoko Ishimura
 * Monsieur Bertin

Returning Characters

 * Special Agent Pendergast
 * Vincent D'Agosta
 * Laura Hayward
 * Nora Kelly
 * Bill Smithback
 * Proctor
 * Cornelia Pendergast
 * Wren
 * Karl Rocker
 * Bryce Harriman