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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
2) Winter prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Called in to assist the sheriff from a remote, rural area of Wisconsin in his investigation into a brutal triple homicide, Lucas Davenport begins to uncover a shocking series of vicious crimes that stun even Davenport with their evil intent.
3) Sudden prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a notorious woman bank robber is killed in a shoot-out with a Minneapolis police team headed by Lucas Davenport, her husband vows to avenge her death by learning the names of the cops responsible and murdering their loved ones.
4) Secret prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
392 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport plays a dangerous cat-and-mouse game to get to the bottom of the murder of a banker that many would have liked to see dead.
5) Mortal prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 24cm
Language
English
Description
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, Clara nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local drug lord. While the man's father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn't; his son wasn't the target, she was, and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself.
The...
6) Naked prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West stumbles on the naked bodies of Jane Warr and Deon Cash, deep in the snowy woods of northern Minnesota, it's more than another bizarre episode in her already unusual life, as Lucas Davenport discovers in this new outing in Sandford's popular series featuring the midwestern lawman who moonlights as a computer game designer.
7) Hidden prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Russian man is found murdered on the shores of Lake Superior, Lucas Davenport must join forces with a cop from Moscow to track down the culprit.
8) Broken prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a gruesome killer. The main suspect, Charlie Pope, was recently released from a mental hospital, where he was locked up with a trio of sadistic murderers. But there are two problems: Charlie hardly seems intelligent enough to be a serial killer--and he has disappeared.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
424 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Upon the discovery of the second body, shot and left near a veterans' memorial with a lemon stuck in it's mouth, Virgil Flowers works to uncover who he believes to be a serial killer, while also trying to detect any possible link to the bodies.
10) Heat lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
11) Rough country
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The resort is for women only, a place to relax, get fit, recover from plastic surgery, and commune with nature. Which makes things all the more complicated for Virgil, because as he begins investigating, he finds a web of connections between...
12) Bad blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In southern Minnesota, a young man murders a local farmer, drops the body into a grain bin, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down. The next day the boy is found hanging in his cell. Virgil suspects foul play, and as he investigates, he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy--a series of crimes of such monstrosity that even he has difficulty...
13) Storm prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucas Davenport's wife, surgeon Weather Karkinnen, becomes a key witness when the getaway car from a botched robbery almost collides with her, making Weather a target for the criminals, who will stop at nothing to keep her quiet, leaving Lucas to protect his wife and solve the case before he loses everything.
14) Shock wave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two different factions fight to prevent the building of a superstore in their Minnesota river town: the environmentalists, who predict ecological disaster, and the local merchants, who fear the impact it will have on their businesses. When the protestors have little effect on the plans, someone decides to take matters into their own hands, setting off two bombs. Now, Virgil Flowers must find the person responsible.
15) Mad river
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Sharp, Becky Welsh, Tom McCall. They were Bonnie and Clyde, they thought, and what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it is captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local...
16) Stolen prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
17) Silken prey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
At 1:15 a.m, 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 ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...
18) Storm front
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You're about to get a visitor. It's an Israeli cop, and she's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic, a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Wait a minute, laughs Virgil. Is this one of those Da Vinci Code deals? The secret scroll, the blockbuster revelation,...
19) Deadline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers...
20) Field of prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He' picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was something smelled bad -- like, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look, he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another,...
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