The Cabinet of Curiosities

This is an okay book co-written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In the 19th century, the wealthy residents of New York kept cabinets full of strange items from around the world and some of them were eventually turned into museums. In the present day, an apartment complex is being erected in lower Manhattan when the excavators discover several human skeletons. A southern enigmatic gentleman who works for the FBI contacts museum archaeologist Nora Kelly to determine what happened to these people and to investigate a recent killer who seems to have been inspired by the original.

I enjoyed the history and suspense, but some aspects were disturbing and bizarre. The book was published in 2002. This is the third novel in the Pendergast series.