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Prey series

Author:
Sandford, John, 1944 February 23
 
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Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's “haunting, unforgettable, ice-blooded thriller”* that introduced Lucas Davenport...
 
The killer was mad but brilliant.
 
He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used...So many rules to his sick, violent games of death.
...
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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A slumlord in Minneapolis. A New York politician. An Oklahoma judge. Three strangers with one thing in common: each has been butchered with a Native American ceremonial knife by a killer known as Shadow Love. Lucas Davenport and Officer Lily Rothenburg needn't look far for the killer. He's right behind them.
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A weary Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, still recovering from two previous brutal cases, is drawn into the search for a serial killer, an eval man of remarkable intelligence and savagery with a penchant for mutilating the eyes of his victims.
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Make noise for a new Prey package and new author introduction!
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.
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A serial sex-killer who preys on vulnerable young women is loose in Minneapolis, and state investigator Meagan Connell suspects he's a cop. At first, Lucas Davenport doesn't believe her theory. But there is something familiar about the vicious stab wounds on these bodies that teases his memory. Somewhere in the city lurks a killer of unusual skill and savagery. If Davenport is right, the killings have just begun.
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Detective Lucas Davenport faces the most difficult case of his life when a brilliant and depraved killer abducts a woman, psychiatrist Andi Manette, and her two young daughters--but help may come from Andi herself as she tries to get inside her captor's head.
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Series Volume:
8.
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“The stakes are high, the characters rich, the action relentless” (Publishers Weekly) in this Lucas Davenport novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
The crime spree should have ended when Lucas Davenport killed the female bank robber during the shoot-out. But it’s just beginning, because the woman’s husband isn’t about to let Lucas—or anyone he loves—escape retribution.
INCLUDES...
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did?  Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse game with a killer who does not hesitate to take the fight to Lucas himself. And those he loves…
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In the 10th installment of the Prey series, Lucas Davenport is pitted against a pair of cunning killers unlike any he has encountered before.
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Lucas Davenport investigates an unsettling series of murders in this classic novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—and this one is John Sandford “at the top of his game” (New York Post)…
 
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....
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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He seems like such a nice man. You’d never guess what was going on in his mind…
Art history professor James Qatar has a hobby: he takes secret photographs of women to fuel more elaborate fantasies. When he’s alone. Behind locked doors. Then one day, he goes a step further and... well, one thing leads to another. Qatar has no choice. He has to kill her. And you know something? He likes it.
When Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport...
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Nearly killed in a hit attempt, retired top hitwoman Clara Rinker goes into hiding, prompting Lucas Davenport, a one-time target of Clara's, to assist the FBI and DEA in tracking her down before her old bosses in the St. Louis mob get to her first.
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The #1 New York Times bestselling Lucas Davenport novel from John Sandford.
Two people are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is the bodies are of a black man and a white woman. Lynching is the word everyone’s trying not to say, but as Lucas Davenport begins to discover, the murders are not at all what they appear to be. And there is worse...
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When Rodion Oleshev, a man with ties to the highest levels of government, is found shot dead on the shore of Lake Superior, Lucas Davenport must take on the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians as he attempts to unravel the case.
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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 value.
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close to home when petty thief and paraplegic Randy Whitcomb targets Lucas's pretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter and a young man with the .50 caliber sniper rifle and the right-wing-crazy background roams through the city filled with the most powerful politicians on earth.
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Witnessing a robbery gone wrong that has caused the death of a pharmacy employee, Lucas Davenport's surgeon wife, Weather Karkinnen, is targeted by the thieves when they become fearful that she can identify them.
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Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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An entire block on the edge of the Minneapolis loop is being torn down for development, when an unpleasant surprise is unearthed : the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic, underneath an old house. It looks like they've been down there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long. In 1985, Davenport was a young cop just about to be promoted out of uniform, despite a reputation for playing fast and loose with the regulations. A local hockey...
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Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed -- husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. On the wall, in blood : "Were coming." No apostrophe. There's something about the scene that tugs 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...
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Series Volume:
23.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways.
An explosive Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer. The governor can’t believe it—the senator’s way too smart for that, even if he is from...
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Series Volume:
24.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford continues his phenomenal Prey series—and “for those who think they know everything they need to know about Lucas Davenport, [Field of Prey] proves them wrong…” (Huffington Post)
On the night of the fifth of July, in Red Wing, Minnesota, a boy smelled death in a cornfield off an abandoned farm. When the county deputy took a look, he found a body...
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Series Volume:
25.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks...
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Series Volume:
26.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of...
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Series Volume:
27.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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"The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets...
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Series Volume:
28.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series. Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before. A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she'd fit right in. He was also convinced that she'd been responsible for three murders, though he'd never been able to prove it. Once a psychopath had...
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Series Volume:
29.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in the newest nail-biter by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford."--
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Series Volume:
30.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford"--
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Series Volume:
31.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Picking up a stalled FBI case involving three murdered Coast Guardsmen, Lucas Davenport teams up with detective Virgil Flowers to investigate the suspicious activities of a sophisticated boat and mysterious diver.
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Series Volume:
32.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford"--
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Series Volume:
33.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there's no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly...
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Series Volume:
34.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.