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With each new book, John Sandford's Lucas Davenport novels grow deeper, richer, more suspenseful, and their audience grows even larger. The best, however, is yet to come.When Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, after the party, he knows it's for no usual case. For one thing, the strangulation victim is Alie'e Maison, she of the knife-edge cheekbones and jade-green eyes: as models go, one of the biggest. For another, there are a few small complications. Such as the drugs in her body and the evidence that she had recently made love to a woman. Such as the fact that one of Lucas's own men had been at the party, and is now a suspect. Such as the little surprise they are all about to find when they search the house: a second body, stuffed in a closet, with a deep dent in its skull.The whole case is going to be like this, Lucas knows--secrets piled upon secrets, the ground shifting constantly under his feet. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life, a married woman now...whose own secrets may turn out to be the most dangerous ones of all.Filled with brilliant characters and exceptional drama, this is Sandford's most suspenseful novel yet.
Author Notes
John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Before entering the U.S. Army and serving in Korea, he received a bachelor's degree in American history from the University of Iowa in 1966. After leaving the service, he received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa.
During the 1970s, he worked at The Miami Herald, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1985, he began researching the lives of a farm family caught in the midst of the crisis of American farming. The article, Life on the Land: An American Farm Family, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize, he began writing fiction. His works include the Prey series, the Virgil Flowers series, and The Singular Menace series. He has also written nonfiction works on plastic surgery and art.
Sandford's Young Adult novels, Uncaged and Outrage, Books 1 and 2 of The Singular Menace Series co-written with Michelle Cook, made the New York Times Bestseller list in July 2016.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The throaty voice of veteran audiobook reader Conger lends Sanford's latest Lucas Davenport thriller a sense of immediacy. Minneapolis detective Davenport is called to a wealthy socialite's house, where the bodies of a supermodel and another woman have been found in a bedroom after a party. Shortly afterwards, relatives and associates of the model, who came from a humble Minnesota town, begin experiencing grisly deaths. With suspects that range from the model's ultrareligious brother to a suspected drug runner, the story takes several unsuspected twists before its resolution. Conger handles the text perfectly, sounding as if he has a coffee cup in one hand and a cigarette in the other while rendering the staccato and often obscene language of Sanford's rough-hewn characters. The recording also inserts background sound effects in interesting, albeit seemingly random, situations to enhance its presentation. A subplot involving Davenport's romantic interludes is tiresome and extraneous, but Conger's excellent rendition of the investigation's many turns will keep listeners engaged to the end. Based on the Putnam hardcover (Forecasts, Mar. 20). (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
This well-regarded series of police procedurals (Certain Prey, 1999, etc.) continues as Lucas Davenport, deputy chief of the Minneapolis PD, hunts a double murderer whose brutal crime sparks a series of deaths that may or may not be revenge killings. Sandford's 11th, however, owes more to Jerry Springer than Ed McBain. Two families vie for honors as most dysfunctional. There are the Olsons, small-towners who push their beauty-queen daughter Sharon (rechristened by the media as Alie'e Maison) into the high-fashion world of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, while brother Tom's itinerant-preacher shtick (complete with stigmata) packs 'em in across the Bible Belt. Then there are the Plain/Corbeaus, leftover hippies from the '60s whose fashion-photographer son and model-turned-potter daughter amuse themselves by sleeping together. Amnon Plain's latest shoot features Alie'e in a provocative pose that raises eyebrows, as well as other body parts, across the nation, especially since it hits the tabloids the day after her body is found, along with that of hotel manager Sandy Lansing, in the tres chic home of socialite Sallance Hanson. Now Davenport has to contend with a media storm as well as a murder. Not to mention his other big problem, the blizzard of women swirling around him: Catrin, his college sweetheart who's ditched her middle-aged marriage and is looking for solace; Marcy Sherrill, a lover from the force now injured in the line of duty; and the redoubtable Weather Karkinnen, his former fiance, whose good graces he'd like to get back into as soon as he's had the chance to sleep with ex- model Jael Corbeau a few dozen more times. Beneath the slime, there's a decent whodunit, but it takes real digging to unearth it. 'I don't know,' muses Davenport during the Grand Guignol of a climax, 'we might be missing the Russians or the Chinese, but that's about it.' Amen.
Booklist Review
Minnesota-born supermodel Alie'e Maison is back in Minneapolis for a photo shoot. At the raucous wrap party, she turns up dead. Lucas Davenport, the millionaire homicide specialist who often corrals serial killers, is called to the scene. What initially appears to be a straightforward crime of passion--Alie'e was strangled after having sex (with a woman)--becomes much more complex when a second body, hotel concierge Sandy Lansing is found stuffed in a closet. Maison's international stature ignites a media circus, muddying Davenport's investigation. There are a dozen potential killers ranging from jilted lovers to dope dealers to Alie'e's born-again brother. The latest entry in the wildly successful Prey series contains all the elements fans have come to expect: solid plot, gallows humor, tasteful sex, and the likable, self-assured Davenport. If there's a bone to pick here, it's that the identity of the killer seems to come out of left field. Or maybe the plot was clever enough to completely fool at least one reader. Overall, this is an involving and very enjoyable thriller. --Wes Lukowsky
Library Journal Review
This 11th novel in the Lucas Davenport series is one of the best, presenting a seemingly simplistic plot that explodes into a complex cat-and-mouse game with an invisible killer. Two murder victims are discovered after a party attended by a group of people with too much money (and they are all spending it on drugs). Famous model Alie'e Maison is one of the victims; the other is the drug supplier. To complicate matters, an undercover cop who works on Davenport's team is identified as having been at the party. Davenport, deputy chief of police in Minneapolis, heads the investigation. As the killings continue, he must determine the motive behind the first murders and then find out why someone is killing almost everyone involved with Alie'e. The book takes off like a roller coaster ride, and the tension never stops. Sandford not only creates a suspenseful tale revolving around the art world, the high-fashion scene, and the realm of a large metropolitan police department attempting to protect its citizens, but he has spun a truly engrossing mystery that leaves the reader guessing to the end. For all fiction collections.--Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.