John Sandford

Lucas Davenport returns in this 18th instalment of the bestselling Prey series

Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before - but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. John Sandford’s most recent Davenport novel, Invisible Prey, was hailed as "one of his best books in recent memory" (The Washington Post"; "as fresh and entertaining as ever" (Chicago Sun-Times); and "rivetingly readable" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). But this time, he’s got something quite special in store. A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no body - and her college-aged daughter missing. She’s always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them - Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this. But the police can’t find the girl, alive or dead, and when a second Goth is found slashed to death in Minneapolis, the widow truly panics. There’s someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, and she implores Weather to get him directly involved. Lucas begins to investigate only reluctantly - but then when a third Goth is slashed in what is now looking like a Jackthe- Ripper series of killings, he starts working it hard. The clues don’t seem to add up, though. And then there’s the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here . . . something very, very bad indeed? Filled with his brilliant trademark suspense and some of the most interesting characters in thriller fiction, Phantom Prey is further proof that "Sandford is in a class of his own" (The Orlando Sentinel).

Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best—murdering one helpless victim after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. Now he has a second opportunity—and the time to hesitate is through.

The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. "Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford's Prey series, gets a chance to shine... The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own.."* He's been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he's never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his wife were murdered. Three homicides in Bluestem in just as many weeks is unheard of. It's also no coincidence. And it's far from over...

Lucas Davenport returns in this 17th instalment of the bestselling Prey series

Investigating the seemingly open-and-shut double homicide case involving a pair of wealthy elderly women, Lucas Davenport begins to suspect that the handful of small items that were stolen from the crime scene may have had more significant values. Reprint.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels delivers "a page-turner with a new hero, and a] breakneck pace" (Minneapolis Star Tribune). "Former Sen. Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the political aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barb-wired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. Democratic 'research assistant' (read: fixer) Jacob Winter, ex-Army Intelligence, wounded in Afghanistan, is called in by the Democratic president to unravel an extremely messy situation and shield his office from any hint of scandal. As this runaway train picks up speed, innocents are murdered, and the guilty come to Jesus... "... Sandford is a master at creating believable, indelible characters like Winter... He] is peerless when it comes to economical, taut plotting, most notably at building tension. Dead Watch is anything but politics as usual."--San Antonio Express-News

The first instalment in a brand-new series from the bestselling author of the PREY novels

A weary Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, still recovering from two previous brutal cases, is drawn into the search for a serial killer, an evil man of remarkable intelligence and savagery with a penchant for mutilating the eyes of his victims. Reissue.

After a series of killings that disturbingly emulate the works of a trio of inmates currently being held at the Minnesota Security Hospital, Lucas Davenport investigates a missing man who was released from the hospital weeks earlier. Reprint.

A series of ritualistic murders committed across the United States draws Lucas Davenport into an unimaginable conspiracy of revenge in this "classic"(Boston Globe) thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis... A rising political star executed in Manhattan... A judge slashed to death in Oklahoma City... Each victim has a history of bad behavior, but the only thing the killings have in common is the murder weapon--a Native American ceremonial knife--and a trail of blood that leads to an embodiment of evil known only as Shadow Love. Recruited to be the lethal hand of a terrorist campaign, Shadow Love has his own bloody agenda, one he will do anything to achieve. Enlisted to find him are Minneapolis police lieutenant Lucas Davenport and New York City police officer Lily Rothenburg. But despite the countrywide carnage they needn't look far. Because Shadow Love is right behind them.

A LUCAS DAVENPORT THRILLER BY GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN SANDFORD He knows how killers think. But what if this killer knows more? It's raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette leaves the parent-teacher meeting with her two daughters. She’s tired and distracted, so she doesn't notice the red van parked beside her, or the van door slide open. The last thing she does notice is the hand reaching out for her and her girls . . . Hours later, deputy chief Lucas Davenport stands in the car park holding a blood-stained shoe in his hand. He knows that this case will be difficult, but he’s got no idea that he might have met his match in a nemesis more intelligent – and more depraved – than any he has tracked before. A killer who knows more about mind games than even Davenport himself. Time is running out to find Andi and her daughters. Will this be the one case that Davenport can’t solve? Praise for John Sandford ‘A big, scary, suspenseful read and I loved every minute of it’ Stephen King ‘Delivers twists to the very last sentence’ Daily Mail ‘John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller' The New York Times Book Review ‘Reads like a breath of fresh air’ Daily Mirror ‘A cop and a killer you will remember for a long, long time’ Robert B. Parker

Lieutenant Lucas Davenport is determined to track down a diabolically clever serial killer who leads a double life, carefully picks out his female victims, and taunts the police with notes signed "Maddog." Reprint.

Theories abound when a Russian gets himself killed on the shore of Lake Superior-shot with fifty-year-old bullets. But when it turns out he had very high government connections, state troubleshooter Lucas Davenport gets the call. Well, Lucas and a mysterious Russian cop with secrets all her own. Together, they'll follow a trail back to another place and another time, and battle the shadows they discover there-shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.