Prey series

Author:
Sandford, John, 1944 February 23
 
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Star rating for Rules of prey
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
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".
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Star rating for Shadow prey
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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Star rating for Eyes of prey
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
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.
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Star rating for Silent prey
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
Description:
Now repackaged in a tall Premium Edition, this classic Prey novel finds psychotic pathologist Mike Bekker back on the streets, doing what he does best--murdering helpless victims. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. Now he has a second opportunity.
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Star rating for Winter prey
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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.
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Star rating for Night prey
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
A savage psychopath is playing cat and mouse with Lucas Davenport. But both killer and detective find themselves at odds with a female investigator who has intensely personal reasons for catching the killer herself-and fast.
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Star rating for Mind prey
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Lucas Davenport is back on a case involving a therapist who's been kidnapped by a former patient. The kidnapper has also taken the therapist's two young daughters. Deeply ill, he acts out his violent sexual fantasies on the therapist first and is about to go after the daughters so Davenport must figure out the clues to the kidnapper's identity.
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Star rating for Sudden prey
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Lucas Davenport and his men have been tracking a dangerous woman bank robber. When they finally catch her, she does not go quietly and they are forced to kill her. Now her ex-husband swears revenge: he will find out who's responsible for her death and kill those near and dear to them.
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Star rating for Secret prey
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
When a CEO dies in a hunting "accident" during an expedition with four executives, each with his or her own agenda, Lucas Davenport investigates and finds himself caught in a web of indefinable evil whose threads lead to a harrowing conspiracy.
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Star rating for Certain prey
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Clara Rinker is the best hit woman in the business. She's been hired by an attorney in Minnesota who wants a rival eliminated. But the witness survives, the attorney starts acting strangely and a big cop named Lucas Davenport gets on her case. There are loose ends popping up everywhere and Lucas is in for the run of his life.
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Star rating for Easy prey
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Lucas Davenport's investigation of the murder of supermodel Alie'e Maison is complicated by the victim's drug habits and secret sex life, as well as suspicion of one of Davenport's own men and the discovery of a second body.
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Star rating for Chosen prey
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Hoping to use a supposedly straightforward case of murder to clear his mind, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport finds himself matching wits with an ever-escalating serial killer, art history professor, congenial pervert, and sexual predator James Qatar.
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Star rating for Mortal prey
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Lucas Davenport and Clara Rinker, a hitwoman, are tangled together again. It seems the hitwoman is the target of a hit and vows vengeance against a Mexican drug lord who murders her boyfriend and her unborn child. Davenport is supposed to find Rinker before she kills again.
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Star rating for Naked prey
Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Moving with his boss to state-level cases, Lucas Davenport, having recently become the head of a family, investigates the hanging deaths of an African American man and a white woman, a case that proves more complicated than it appears.
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Star rating for Hidden prey
Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
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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Star rating for Broken prey
Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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.
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Star rating for Invisible prey
Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered. Two elderly women have been brutally bludgeoned inside their home, with only a few valuable yet common stolen items indicating the killer's sinister motives.
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Star rating for Phantom prey
Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
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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Star rating for Wicked prey
Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Minnesota investigator Lucas Davenport struggles to protect his daughter Letty from a vengeful psychopathic pimp who blames Davenport for his handicap. All the while, a professional thief plans to rob the city of Minneapolis blind right before the Republican National Convention. Can Davenport protect his daughter and ensure the security of Minneapolis?
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Star rating for Storm prey
Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Early one frigid Minnesota morning, three men break into a hospital pharmacy and rob the place blind. But during the getaway they hit a snag, and the thieves lose one of their number. Not only that, they also encounter a woman who may be able to identify them. To clean up their tracks, they'll have to take down the witness. There's only one problem: she's the wife of investigator Lucas Davenport.
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Star rating for Buried prey
Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.
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Star rating for Stolen prey
Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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...
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Star rating for Silken prey
Series Volume:
23.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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...
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Star rating for Field of prey
Series Volume:
24.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd 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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Star rating for Gathering prey
Series Volume:
25.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
When his adopted daughter's friend reports that someone has been killing off a circle of nomadic panhandlers, Lucas travels to North Dakota, where he encounters a dangerously violent subculture.
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Star rating for Extreme prey
Series Volume:
26.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"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 is--until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor... and anyone who gets in the way"--
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Star rating for Golden prey
Series Volume:
27.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
A series of audacious robberies compels newly appointed U.S. marshal Lucas Davenport to investigate the possible return of a gang leader who once killed two FBI agents.
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Star rating for Twisted prey
Series Volume:
28.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator. Lucas 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 gotten that kind of rush, though, he or she often needed another fix, so he figured he...
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Star rating for Neon prey
Series Volume:
29.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
When a seemingly minor investigation leads to the discovery of trophies from a score of murders, Lucas Davenport lands on the trail of an enigmatic killer who has been able to operate for years below the radar.
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Star rating for Masked prey
Series Volume:
30.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures . . . of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups. It's obviously alarming--is there an unstable extremist tracking...
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Star rating for Ocean prey
Series Volume:
31.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
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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Star rating for Righteous prey
Series Volume:
32.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
“We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating...
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Star rating for Judgment prey
Series Volume:
33.
Average Rating:
3.8 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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Star rating for Toxic prey
Series Volume:
34.
Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is untenable, and the direct link to Earth’s death spiral; population levels are out of control and people have allowed disarray and disorder to run rampant. While most are concerned about deadly disease, Scott knows that...