Nora Kelly · Book 6
Badlands
- Published
- 1 January 2025
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781668648193
- Type
- novel
About this book
Badlands, published in 2025 two years after Dead Mountain, is the fifth numbered entry at 400 pages and the current end of the series to date. No further Nora Kelly title had been announced as of this writing, though Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's shared universe leaves the door open for more crossovers with the Pendergast series.
Its place in Nora Kelly
Badlands is book 6 in the Nora Kelly series. It follows Dead Mountain. See the full Nora Kelly reading order.
Nora Kelly is a Santa Fe archaeologist -- introduced in Preston & Child's 1999 standalone Thunderhead -- who resurfaces two decades later as director of the Institute of Archaeology, partnered with young FBI agent Corrie Swanson (herself a recurring character from the Pendergast series) to work cold cases and crimes with a forensic or historical dimension. The pairing lets the authors combine Nora's academic, dig-site expertise with Corrie's federal investigative authority. The numbered series proper runs from…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781668648193