I thought that was a big change as she struck me as being on a different life path, but clearly her meeting Pendergast changed that. She decided to pursue a career as an FBI agent after attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He was able to get her out of that life, and she was a very minor character in a few books. She is apparently based on a real person, a grandmother of one of the authors who was an amateur archaelogist and author.Ĭorrie Swanson was introduced in Still Life With Crows, where she met Pendergast in her hometown in Kansas as a high-school student.
She later returned to the Southwest, again working as an archaeologist in Santa Fe. They married, and she moved to New York, where she helped out Pendergast in a few novels (saving his life in one) before Bill was killed in Cemetery Dance. Smithback was a minor character in the Pendergast series, a reporter that annoyed Pendergast, but did help.
Nora Kelly is an archaeologist operating in Santa Fe, N.M, and was introduced in the novel Thunderhead where she met Bill Smithback. And often the story switches between the two until they are working together. We see their career outside the particular case they are working. It’s called the “Nora Kelly series,” though I kind of think it should be named for both as both are treated equally in the series. It was nice that they wrapped up the storyline started in The Ice Limit though.Īfter it ended, they launched a new series using a couple of characters who have appeared in the Pendergast series: Nora Kelly and Connie Swanson. They set it up to have a finite series, as the main character was dying of an incurrable disease, though we were never told how many novels would be in the series. Their recent Gideon Crew series was a mixed bag. I also read some of their stand-alone novels that linked in. I’ve been enjoying their Agent Pendergast series for many years. For some time now, I’ve been reviewing the works by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, who are just referred to as Preston & Child.
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