Lethal Prey

A Prey Novel, Book 35

De: John Sandford

Narrado por: Robert Petkoff

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to track down a ruthless killer who will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found.

Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Dozens of true crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and “clicks,” and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead.

When one of the bloggers locates the murder weapon, Lucas and Virgil begin to uncover vital details about the killer’s identity. But what they don’t know is the killer lurks in plain sight, and with the true crime bloggers blasting every clue online, the killer can keep one step ahead. As the nation maneuvers the detectives closer to the truth, Lucas and Virgil will find that digging up Doris’s harrowing past might just get them buried instead.

©2025 John Sandford (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

One of New York Post's 30 Must-Read New Thrillers

"A superlative police procedural paired with an outrageous serial-killer saga, enlivened by an array of quirky characters."—Wall Street Journal

not a John Sandford ending

I feel like the final chapter is missing, I've read/listened to all of John Sandford's books, I look forward to them, one thing I love is they can all stand alone or if, like me, you can follow the series & lives of Lucas, Virgil & now Letty but what happened here? where's the resolution??

what the heck?

All I'm going to say is the ending was abrupt and not a good ending at all!

What was that ending?

Enjoyed the story, but the non-ending was frustrating. I just don’t understand. I love this series. Don’t remember ever being disappointed with an ending like this one.

Always enjoy Lucas & That F’n Flowers…

BUT, for the 1st time, I was not a fan of the ending on this one.

No ending

What to heck. Was the story rushed? It needed to have some sort of resolution.

Lucas and Virgil great. Ending not.

Liked interaction with Lucas and Virgil. Their back and forth about the case—excellent. Didn’t like ending or Virgil losing interest in case. Villain painted well but end didn’t get justice—not good. Virgil losing interest due to novel writing—downer. He’s probably your best character in the past.

not up to par

I've listen to all the books about Davenport and Flowers, and know the characters pretty well. In this one, Davenport and Flowers are hard to tell from each other; they seem to have lost their personalities. I think this is about half narration and half story.
The story is decent but not great. It's kind of disappointing from Sandford.

Worst ending ever!!!

Ending. Never would’ve bought this book, and wish I could get my money back. John Sanford seldom writes a disaster but he did it here

Nice fast pace.

Was very hard to put down. I enjoy that he brings in all the ancillary characters that we know and love. Having Lucas and Flowers together just steps up antics. Loved it!

Great story line.

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers novels are the absolute best !!! They work so well together.