Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Badlands (UK 2026)

From the Publisher:
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors return with a scintillating supernatural-themed thriller. Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson investigate bizarre deaths in the New Mexico desert, but awaken an ancient evil.

In the New Mexico desert badlands, a woman's skeleton is found with two rare artefacts clutched in her hands: lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.

Was it suicide... or sacrifice?
FBI Special Agent Corrie Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found in identical circumstances, they realise 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.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Badlands. Can an ancient evil be contained? Head of Zeus - an Aries Book, ISBN: 9781035915682 (March, 2026), 355 p.,£10.99.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Badlands (UK 2025)

From the Publisher:
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors return with a scintillating supernatural-themed thriller. Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson investigate bizarre deaths in the New Mexico desert, but awaken an ancient evil.

In the New Mexico desert badlands, a woman's skeleton is found with two rare artefacts clutched in her hands: lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.

Was it suicide... or sacrifice?
FBI Special Agent Corrie Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found in identical circumstances, they realise 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.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Badlands. Head of Zeus - an Aries Book, ISBN: 9781035915705 (June, 2025), 355 p.,£20.00, eBook £7.99.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Badlands (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale of "hair-raising fun" (Kirkus) in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they've faced before.

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.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Badlands. A Nora Kelly Novel. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781538765821 (June, 2025), 368 p., $30.00, eBook $14.99.