Lucas Davenport
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    Rules of Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford
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    The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare, is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.

    I love this series

    John Sandford Prey series is awesome but If your like me I have read/listened to a few out of order; it's really no big deal but here is the list in o..Show More »

    Reviewed on Aug 31 2011 by D (corona, ca United States)
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    Rules of Prey: A Lucas Davenport Mystery, Book 1 | John Sandford
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    Rules of Prey: A Lucas Davenport Mystery, Book 1

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    For Maddog, the killer who had Minneapolis in a grip of chilled terror, satisfaction came from the thrill of the contest. After each grisly murder he would leave behind one of the rules he had devised: Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. He was no textbook psychopath. But Lieutenant Lucas Davenport was no ordinary detective. To bring an end to Maddog's trail of death, he would have to play by his own rules.

    Start of the excellent prey series

    I read these books twenty years ago now and have been an avid fan of the series ever since. John Sandford finds a way to drag you into the characters ..Show More »

    Reviewed on Feb 25 2013 by Don (Curtin, Australia)
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    Shadow Prey | John Sandford
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    Lucas Davenport Continues to Thrive
    Reviewed on Dec 19 2012 by Doug (Highland Park, IL, United States)
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    Shadow Prey: A Lucas Davenport Mystery, Book 2 | John Sandford
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    An orchestrated series of ritual killings has shocked the nation. Partnered by New York police officer Lily Rothenburg, Detective Lucas Davenport will need all the tricks he has learnt on the streets of Minneapolis as he searches through the shadows and mysteries of the American Indian community, trying to track down the obsessed minds behind the bloody vengeance killings - before the team of killers finally goes out of control.

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    Eyes of Prey: The Lucas Davenport Series, Book 3 | John Sandford
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    Eyes of Prey: The Lucas Davenport Series, Book 3

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    The “Prey” novels by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Sandford consistently make the best-seller lists, but they are not for the faint of heart. Featuring Minneapolis Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, these thrillers are raw, graphic, and impossible to put down. In Eyes of Prey, a depressed and unfocused Davenport takes on a macabre case, tracking down a serial killer who maims the eyes of his victims after he has murdered them.

    Lucas Davenport, #1 reason to move to Minnesota!
    Reviewed on May 04 2012 by Janet (Westport, MA, United States)
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    Silent Prey: Lucas Davenport, Book 4 | John Sandford
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    In Eyes of Prey, Bekker, an insane pathologist who experiments with his patients’ pain thresholds, is finally brought down by an unrelenting Lucas Davenport, who brutally maims the doctor’s beautiful face but leaves him alive. “You should have killed me,” were Bekker’s parting and prophetic words.

    In this sequel to Eyes of Prey, Bekker endures the indignities and horrors of imprisonment, taking comfort in the fact that it is only a matter of time before he will make Lucas Davenport pay.

    Couldn't Stop Listening

    I just couldn't stop listening to this book. The plot and exposition, especially the sub-plot about the "Robin Hood" cops just held me until it was ov..Show More »

    Reviewed on Jul 19 2012 by Elliott (United States)
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    Winter Prey | John Sandford
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    Few writers have explored the human dark side with as much insight and power - and in Winter Prey, his shattering New York Times best-seller, Sandford tells his most ice-blooded tale of all. Minneapolis Lieutenant Lucas Davenport has tracked killers in cities across America. But even he may be unprepared to face the savage murderer hunting human prey in the Wisconsin woods this winter.

    ... when Lucas met Winter ...
    Reviewed on Aug 19 2012 by Janet (Westport, MA, United States)
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    Night Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford
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    John Sandford's best-selling Lucas Davenport series continues with the fast-paced, compelling thriller, Night Prey. A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up....

    Tense and builds steam

    So happy early books were re-recorded with Richard Ferrone. He is Lucas Davenport and makes tyhe books so much better. Story builds with intensity thr..Show More »

    Reviewed on Dec 06 2011 by edward t ward jr (york, pa United States)
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    Mind Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford
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    John Sandford's acclaimed Prey novels featuring the brilliant Lucas Davenport have plunged millions of readers into the darkest recesses of the criminal mind. Now Lucas has met his match. His newest nemesis is more intelligent, more deadly, than any he has tracked before: a kidnapper, a violator, and a cruel, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself.

    Too much rape for me

    Everything about the book was good with the exception of the continual rape. If that does not a concern you will enjoy the book.

    Reviewed on May 12 2011 by Brad (Cartersville, GA, United States)
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    Sudden Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford
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    John Sandford's acclaimed Prey novels featuring the brilliant Lucas Davenport have plunged millions of readers into the darkest recesses of the criminal mind.... When Lucas and his team gun down two bank robbers in the middle of a heist, Davenport falls prey to the purest and simplest criminal motivation: revenge.

    Wild ride

    This was very good. You never knew if Davenport or one of his cops was going to take a bullet. Nothing worse than crazy bad guys bent on revenge. Scar..Show More »

    Reviewed on Nov 26 2012 by Robin (Federal Way, Wa, United States)
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    Secret Prey: Lucas Davenport, Book 9 | John Sandford
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    The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech.

    All the Davenport series

    I get a great kick out of the Davenport series, it's a little more complex then Patterson but one of the better series besides Reacher

    I just..Show More »

    Reviewed on Mar 11 2013 by gordonkuang (little neck, NY, United States)
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    Certain Prey | John Sandford
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    Her name is Clara Rinker, a southern woman, trim, pleasant, attractive, and the best hit woman in the business. She isn't showy; she just goes quietly about her business, collects her money, and goes home. It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things become complicated for her. A defense attorney wants a rival eliminated, and that's fine. But then a witness survives, the attorney starts acting weird, this big cop Davenport gets on her case, and loose ends begin popping up faster than on an unraveling sweater

    My Favorite
    Reviewed on Feb 28 2013 by Roy (EL PASO, TX, United States)
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    Easy Prey: Lucas Davenport, Book 11 | John Sandford
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    Easy Prey: Lucas Davenport, Book 11

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    In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined - one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared....

    can't believe this was written by Sandford. . . .

    Even if you are a hard core John Sandford fan as I am, this book is just about unreadable. Don't know what happened here. Where were Sandford's edit..Show More »

    Reviewed on Nov 22 2012 by Ruth (LA, USA)
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    Chosen Prey | John Sandford
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    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.

    a great Sandford thriller

    I just never tire of this author -- the suspense always get me. I think "Winter Prey" is the best of the Prey series, but this one leads you an unmer..Show More »

    Reviewed on Nov 11 2004 by Nina (Arlington, VA, USA)
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    Mortal Prey | John Sandford
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    Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord, and while the boy's father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn't: The boy wasn't the target, she was, and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself.

    Raves for Mortal Prey

    John Sandford is at his best. But,all of his books have equal rank--"tops." John excells at bringing the reader into the story and portraying the ever..Show More »

    Reviewed on Oct 16 2007 by Michael (Mineola, TX, USA)
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    Naked Prey: Lucas Davenport, Book 14 | John Sandford
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    In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her. In addition, Lucas is now married and a new father, both of which are fine with him: He doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes it particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked....

    Meet Letty West!

    Loved this book. Letty West is one of the best character additions to this great series. She appears in subsequent novels in the series and she is a ..Show More »

    Reviewed on Nov 01 2012 by Ruth (LA, USA)
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    Hidden Prey | John Sandford
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    Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why he was killed, everybody - the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves - has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan.

    Davenport is all business in this one

    Having read many of the installments in the Davenport series, I was a little surprised that the usual cast of family and law enforcement characters we..Show More »

    Reviewed on Jan 14 2013 by Ed (Saint Augustine, FL, United States)
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    Broken Prey | John Sandford
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    The "Big Three" are a trio of inmates locked up in the Minnesota Security Hospital over the years, each a particularly vicious serial killer, each with his own distinct style and propensities. Everybody feels much safer knowing that they're behind bars. Except...there's a new killer on the loose. And his handiwork bears a disturbing resemblance to some of the finer points practiced by the Big Three, details that never even made the papers.

    Top drawer entertainment - as usual!

    Personally, I found Broken Prey to be just as entertaining and captivating as all his other stories. Sandford is of my all time favorite authors, and..Show More »

    Reviewed on May 21 2005 by Charlotte (Portland, OR, United States)
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    Invisible Prey | John Sandford
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    In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items stolen. It is clearly the random work of someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as Davenport looks more closely, he begins to wonder whether the items are actually so small and the victims so random; if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually, a pattern begins to emerge, and it leads him to...certainly nothing he ever expected.

    Another great read

    As always another great prey book. I was afraid I was not going to see another new Lucas Davenport thriller. Great plot, believeable and yet tricky.

    Reviewed on Jun 03 2007 by Sheryl Baumgart ()
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    Phantom Prey | John Sandford
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    Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before - but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey work from the #1 New York Times best-selling author.

    Get off Richard Ferrone's back!

    I thought that the spacy voice of the Fairy character was right on. I have heard women speak like that. Really. Whiny, self-indulgent types. Ones ..Show More »

    Reviewed on Apr 03 2010 by Maura Smith-Mitsky ()
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    Wicked Prey | John Sandford
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    The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather have stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stick-up men who've spotted several lucrative opportunities, ranging from political moneymen with briefcases full of cash to that armored-car warehouse with the weakness in its security system.

    Another winner for Davenport fans

    I have listened to many of the Davenport novels from Audible as well as Sandford's companion Flowers series. From reading prior reviews I expected to..Show More »

    Reviewed on Jun 06 2009 by Tony B. (Shelburne, VT USA)
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    Having spent two years in hiding, a big-time robber is back. It's a couple of weeks before the Republican party convention and thousands are spending cash, which is flowing into a warehouse protected by only a few armed guards. Lucas Davenport meanwhile has problems of his own, targeted by a psychopathic pimp, it's not Davenport he's after; it's his daughter.

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    Storm Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel | John Sandford
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    Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.

    Entertaining & Edgy

    I was not impressed with John Sandfords last prey novel, but I was super impressed and ENTERTAINED with Storm Prey! In this book, Sandford brings in..Show More »

    Reviewed on May 20 2010 by Erin (Melville, NY, United States)
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    A daring drugs raid on a Minneapolis hospital, during which a medical orderly is murdered, takes place on the same day that Lucas Davenport's surgeon wife, Weather, is due to perform a high-profile operation to separate conjoined twin girls. Investigating the raid, Davenport concludes that it must have been an inside job and - as a witness to the criminals' desperate getaway - Weather is now in grave danger.

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    Buried Prey | John Sandford
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    A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis - the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn't just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.

    good story

    This is my 4th or 5th Sandford now, I think only my second Lucas Davenport, the others being Virgil Flowers. It was a good story, interesting how he w..Show More »

    Reviewed on Sep 22 2011 by Stevon (Tempe, AZ, United States)
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    Stolen Prey | John Sandford
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    .Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed - husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There’s something about the scene that pokes at Lucas’s cop instincts - it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he’s seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn’t seem to fit.

    Sanford writes another winner!

    I have eagerly awaited this latest book in the Lucas Davenport series and I was not dissappointed. I really would have liked to give in 4 1/2 stars, ..Show More »

    Reviewed on May 19 2012 by Elizabeth (Lexinton, SC, United States)
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    Silken Prey: Lucas Davenport, Book 23 | John Sandford
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    Very early one morning, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he’s breathing." And another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that’s the last thing he knows. Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man’s disappearance, then - very troublingly - to the Minneapolis police department, then - most troublingly of all - to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons.

    Still my favorite combo of author and reader
    Reviewed on May 10 2013 by John Norton (Southern USA)