02119cam a2200421 i 4500 2561828105 TxAuBib 20250911120000.0 241220s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538765821 1538765829 TxAuBib rda Preston, Douglas J, author. Badlands / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. First edition. New York : Grand Central, 2025. ©2025. 355 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Nora Kelly ; 5 "In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found--and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands--lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or ... sacrifice? Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found--exactly like the other--the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price"-- Provided by publisher. 20250911. Kelly, Nora (Fictitious character) Fiction. Swanson, Corrie (Fictitious character) Fiction. Death Fiction. Women archaeologists Fiction. Death. fast Women archaeologists. fast New Mexico Fiction. New Mexico. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Fiction. fast Child, Lincoln, author. Nora Kelly ; 5.