Lucas gets in only reluctantly - but then when a second Goth is slashed to death in Minneapolis, he starts working it hard. 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 her husband directly involved. And now this.īut the police can't find the girl, alive or dead, and the widow truly panics. 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. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. "You know life is good when you have a new Lucas Davenport thriller to escape into," writes the Chicago Tribune, and Naked Prey proves it again.Ī widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood on the walls, no body - and her college-age daughter missing. There is worse to come - much, much worse.įilled with rich characterization and exceptional drama that are his hallmarks, this is Sandford's most suspenseful novel yet.
"Lynching" is the word that everybody's trying not to say - but, as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are nothing like what they appear to be, and they are not the end of it. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill.
In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. Now, in Naked Prey, he puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. In the words of the Washington Post: "John Sandford does everything right." His last book, Mortal Prey, was "a model of the genre" (People) and "the cop novel of the year" (Kirkus Reviews). Potential patients may find Camp's frankness somewhat daunting, but overall, he has written a sympathetic account not only of those who practice the art but also those who seek it out.Īfter thirteen years and thirteen Prey novels, John Sandford's writing is as fresh as ever. Camp spares nothing: he tells us what it's like to see flesh cut and smell veins cauterized he relates Cunningham's frustration when he cannot create a perfect nose he even rewards our worst fears by reporting how a surgical team talks about a patient once she's under anesthetic: ''Gee, I don't know,'' muses a resident while the surgeon is trying to determine what size breast implant to use, ''If she wanted to be in the B-C area, that might be a little small.'' In another case a nurse, noticing a patient's scars from previous plastic surgery, remarks, ''What is she trying to do, make herself into the perfect woman?'' The result is a book that's thoroughly engrossing. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Camp followed Minnesota plastic surgeon Bruce Cunningham as he performed breast enlargements and reductions, nose jobs, tummy tucks and liposuctions, as well as restorative surgery on victims of cancer and accidents. Lorelai and her group have set in motion an explosive plan. When the case quickly turns deadly, they know they’re on the track of something bigger. Letty is partnered with a DHS investigator, John Kaiser, and they head to Texas. Colles wants to know if the money is going to them, and if so, what they’re planning. He isn’t so much concerned with the oil as he is with the money: who is selling the oil, and what are they doing with the profits? Rumor has it that a fairly ugly militia group-led by a woman known only as Lorelai-might be involved. Several oil companies in Texas have reported thefts of crude, Colles tells her. Letty’s ready to quit, but her skills have impressed Colles, and he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U. Singular Menace (Co-authored with Michele Cook)īy age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals.
Rhymes with Prey: A Prey Novella (2014).The Eye and the Heart: Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle (1988).The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (2017).
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