Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Blurb:
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...
But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-- or what-- is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
My Reaction:This isn't my usual fare, but on the whole, I enjoyed it. (I'd give it 3.5 stars.) The museum made for a fascinating and atmospheric setting, and I found the main characters interesting and sympathetic enough that I cared what happened to at least a few of them.
The references to 1990's technology brought back memories from my youth... In many ways, modern tech is of course wonderful, but I do feel some nostalgia for the good old days-- especially the time before smart phones!
Without giving away too much, I wasn't really surprised by the twist, since it had occurred to me as one possibility earlier in the novel-- still interesting reading, though.
Ultimately, I'm not sure whether I'll read more in this series or not. It was a reasonably enjoyable but oftentimes slow read for me, until the action finally kicked in and the story flowed more easily. Psuedo-scientific thrillers are a little outside what I generally like to read, but I might give the next one a try, at some point. I took a sneak peek at some plot points from later on in the series, and I have to say, it sounds a little crazy, but maybe...
