Unfortunately, Thunderhead got lost in the shuffle of my ever growing TBR pile. When I first came across Thunderhead, after reading the plot description on the back of the book, I knew this book checked of a lot of “Hell YEAH”s on my list. And searching for a lost city / civilization is up there at the tippy top of the list. I love a good mystery and my brain loves putting the pieces of a puzzle together. I may not physically be there hunting for it, but my mind pours over the clues left behind, following right along with the explorers -new and old- who go off to uncharted lands searching for the lost cities. And nothing gets the gears in my head turning more then a lost civilization. I have always loved archeology and unsolved mysteries. Published by Hachette Audio in August 3, 2010. Thunderhead by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins to unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology, but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors.

Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah’s canyon country. In it, her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich – the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. These.Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written 16 years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. The skinwalkers wear belts made from multiple conchas. The skinwalkers wear cloaks made of animal pelts and masks made from buckskin. The skinwalkers carry knives made from sharpened obsidian. Skip's car mysteriously loses its brakes, causing Skip to realize that the people dressed like animals who attacked his sister are skinwalkers. Unfortunately the hair in the hairbrush belongs to Nora's brother, Skip.

The skinwalkers take a hairbrush from Nora's house to cast a spell on her, hoping it will lead to her death. Nora uses this letter to lead an expedition into the Utah canyons. This letter tells Nora the location of Quivira, a mythic city of gold. While investigating vandalism at the family ranch, Nora Kelly finds a letter her father wrote the same year he disappeared, more than sixteen years earlier.

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