The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas PrestonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Only now, after reading the whole thing, is it clear that this latest Cabinet from Preston & Child, The Cabinet of Dr. Leng, is part of an official new sub-series of the Pendergast novels, now to dubbed the Leng Quartet. It began in The Cabinet of Curiosities and continued quite subtly in Bloodline, whose surprise cliffhanger led to this book and its peculiar story in Four Lines, All Waiting format. Constance in the past, in an era strongly reminiscent of The Alienist (albeit 15-20 years prior to the time period of that series), Pendergast desperate to recover her despite the Arcanum no longer being in working order, D’Agosta on a strange death in cold storage at the Museum of Natural History, Coldmoon on a peculiar murder on a Lakota reservation with a connection at least to D’Agosta’s side of things…needless to say, it becomes very clear by about halfway through that Preston and Child have too much story for one book. At least they promise the next one will conclude the Leng arc, and not a moment too soon after yet more insidious cliffhangers…
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