Book Review: John Sandford’s Invisible Prey
Two rich elderly ladies are murdered – money for drugs, it’s thought. But Lucas Davenport begins to see a pattern, an unexpected one. With killers waiting for him.
Two rich elderly ladies are murdered – money for drugs, it’s thought. But Lucas Davenport begins to see a pattern, an unexpected one. With killers waiting for him.
Throats cut, bodies scourged and put on display with nothing to link them. Lucas Davenport knows it will be bad. Too soon he discovers it will be far worse.
A Russian is killed, bringing in a Russian cop. Lucas Davenport must follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows.
Two people found hanging naked from a tree – a black man and a white woman. A lynching? But Lucas Davenport begins to discover there is worse to come.
An assassin misses, and the no-longer-retired Clara Rinker goes on the hunt to find the killer herself. Anyone standing in the middle won’t stand a chance…
An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and… well, one thing led to another, and he had to kill her. A man in his position couldn’t be too careful, after all. And you know something? He liked it.
Already faced with a welter of confusion in his personal life, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport decides to take this case himself, hoping that some straightforward police work will clear his head, but as the trail begins to take some unexpected turns, it soon becomes clear that nothing is straightforward about this killer. The man is learning as he goes, Lucas realizes, taking great strides forward with each murder. He is becoming a monster — and Lucas may have no choice but to walk right into his lair…
The past presents a harrowing case and an unsettling personal dilemma for Lucas Davenport when the death of a model leads him to suspect one of his own men.
It’s revenge. Lives for a life. He will find those responsible and kill their nearest and dearest. Lucas Davenport must find them before they reach his own loved ones.
A master thief becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman–then carves her initials into his victims.
From the bestselling author of Night Prey and Winter Prey…an all-new Lucas Davenport thriller.
Run for it…
It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent-teacher conference with her two young daughters, and she was distracted. She barely noticed the red van parked beside her, barely noticed the van door slide open as they dashed up to the car. The last thing she did notice was the hand reaching out for her and the voice from out of the past — and then the three of them were gone.
Hours later, deputy chief Lucas Davenport stood in the parking lot, a blood-stained shoe in his hand, the ground stained pink around him, and knew that this would be one of the worst cases he’d ever been on. With an urgency born of dread, he presses the attack, while in an isolated farmhouse, Andi Manette does the same, summoning all her skills to battle an obsessed captor. She knows the man who has taken her and her daughters, knows there is a chink in his armor, if only she can find it. But for both her and Davenport, time is already running out.
John Sandford’s novels have always been extraordinary for their harrowing twists, unforgettable characters, and crackling prose. But Mind Prey tops them all. It is the work of a true master.