Title: Fever dream
Description: At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks.  Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why? With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden.  Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle-the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou-he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?
Subjects: Fiction, Spouses, Government investigators, Aloysius Pendergast (Fictitious character), Crimes against, Suspense, Thriller, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Fiction, psychological, New york (n.y.), fiction, Crime, fiction, Large type books, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2011-04-17, New York Times bestseller
Places: New York (N.Y.)