John Sandford
1) Golden prey
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"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 to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him. And where they've led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five...
2) Deep freeze
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Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 10
A Virgil Flowers novel volume Bk 10
A Virgil Flowers novel volume 10
A Virgil Flowers novel volume Bk 10
A Virgil Flowers novel volume 10
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"Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly--in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned out, homicidal - local school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There's...
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They call them travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes. And now someone is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman traveler named Skye, whom she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, and she's afraid she knows who it is. She's hiding out, and she doesn't know what to do. Letty pays for a bus ticket...
4) Extreme Prey
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After a recent adventure with his daughter, Lucas Davenport finds himself no longer employed by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. His friend the governor has been cranking up a presidential campaign and has a job for Lucas. The governor's been hearing strange things on the campaign trail; nothing specific, just whispers that make him wonder if there are some crazies out there planning to do something. He's passed it along to the appropriate...
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Lucas Davenport pursues a prolific serial killer who has gone undetected for years in the newest nail-biter by best selling author John Sandford. It was a relatively minor criminal matter, but enough that the U.S. Marshals obtained a warrant to enter the home. They didn't expect to unearth trophies from a score of killings. Now Davenport is on the trail of a serial murderer, one who was able to operate for years without notice or suspicion. But there's...
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Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review). At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions...
7) Storm Front
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In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a visitor: an Israeli investigator. She is chasing a man who has smuggled out an extraordinary relic-- an ancient inscribed stone with startling details about King Solomon. Despite Virgil's first reaction-- that this is a joke, or a movie plot-- it turns out that many people around the world are also pursuing the smuggler, some of them likely to...
8) Bad blood
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When a murder suspect commits suicide after his arrest for killing a soybean farmer, Virgil Flowers uncovers a multi-generation, multi-family conspiracy involving a series of monstrous crimes.
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"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,...
10) Phantom prey
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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.
11) Silken Prey
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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...
12) Dark of the moon
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Virgil Flowers, 30, a cop with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, had come to Bluestem in search of a killer. There hadn't been a murder in Bluestem in years, but now suddenly there had been three. He thought some of his previous cases had been hard, but they were nothing compared to this one. All he knew for sure was that the three murders were somehow connected and he was determined to discover how, hopefully before he became the next...
13) Shock wave
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The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it - local merchants fearing for their businesses and the environmentalists predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project down, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction...
14) Wicked prey
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The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. That's headache enough for Lucas Davenport but what's about to hit him is worse. A while back, a stray bullet put pimp and petty thief Randy Whitcomb in a wheel chair, and he's been nursing his grudge into a full head of psychotic steam. He blames Davenport for the...
15) Sudden Prey
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Lucas Davenport's men have been tracking a vicious woman bank robber named Candy, and when they finally catch up with her, she does not go quietly. In the ensuing shoot-out, she dies and Davenport's nightmare begins, for her ex-husband swears an appropriate revenge.
16) Mind prey
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One of therapist Andi Manette's former patients has kidnapped her and her two daughters. When the kidnapper phones with taunts and hints, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport begins to feel like a character in one of his own computer simulation games. He must figure out clues to the kidnapper's identity before he can find where he s holding his prey. Davenport's time is running out, and his score is still desperately low...
17) The Investigator
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Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but her...
18) Certain Prey
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"In Certain Prey, Davenport confronts an entirely new kind of adversary. Clara Rinker is a southerner, trim, pleasant, attractive - and the best hit woman in the business. She isn't showy, not one of those movie killers; she just goes quietly about her business, collects her money, and goes home."--BOOK JACKET. "It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things become complicated for her. A defense attorney wants a rival eliminated, and that's...
19) Judgment prey
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Prey series volume 33
Virgil Flowers novels volume 15
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers novel volume 33
Prey novel volume 33
Virgil Flowers novels volume 15
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers novel volume 33
Prey novel volume 33
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"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...
20) Dark angel
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Letty Davenport novels volume 2
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Letty Davenport's days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas--and her incredible skills with firearms--draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work. The Department of Homeland Security and the NSA have tasked her with infiltrating a hacker group, known only as Ordinary People, that is intent on wreaking havoc. Letty and her reluctant...