Lethal Prey
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4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to track down a ruthless killer who will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found.
Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Dozens of true crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and “clicks,” and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead.
When one of the bloggers locates the murder weapon, Lucas and Virgil begin to uncover vital details about the killer’s identity. But what they don’t know is the killer lurks in plain sight, and with the true crime bloggers blasting every clue online, the killer can keep one step ahead. As the nation maneuvers the detectives closer to the truth, Lucas and Virgil will find that digging up Doris’s harrowing past might just get them buried instead.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Every amateur sleuth with a laptop has joined the cold-case investigation at the heart of this installment in John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport series. It starts with Lara Grandfelt, a woman who’s been mourning her twin sister Doris’ unsolved murder for two decades. When Lara finally decides to post the entire case file, offering a $5 million reward to any true-crime blogger or podcaster who can solve the mystery, it’s clear that the case needs to be managed—perhaps by investigators Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers. Making these crime-solving masterminds sort through the pure slop, potential leads, and real, usable evidence from true-crime lovers is a fun jumping-off point. And things only get more exciting when the real killer catches wind of the phenomenon—and decides to kill again. Sandford’s signature howcatchem format had us completely on edge, never knowing if Davenport and Flowers would find the murderer…or if the killer would find them first.
Customer Reviews
Spoiler alert
Lucas Davenport and that f——-g Flowers are, if not my favorite fictional characters, easily in the top three. Always look forward to these books being released, and I do hope that a sequel is coming. The ending was mystifying. I needed closure and I didn’t get it. Not sure if I missed something but the victims and their families received no justice or closure, nor the readers, IMHO.
But otherwise a good, funny and suspenseful read.
Good until the end. Very disappointing ending
Ending very disappointing. Can only presume a setup for a $16 sequel have read many author’s book over the years. This is my last one!
Oh Come On….
It took me awhile to get into the book. It’s been on my phone awhile. Finally I had some time & really started to read. Then the OMG moment when you can’t turn the pages fast enough. It was that good. Couldn’t wait to see what would happen. Then I turned a page & hit a brick wall. Like….what just happened. Are we now supposed to guess? I don’t think there would be enough left for a second book.
Obviously Lucas & Virgil are fantastic characters but this book seemed a little hurried. Everything seemed to be rushed. From the wedding, to what happened to the true crime people, it almost seemed as if he wanted to wrap it up quickly. Hard to get into, middle & up until the page before last great, & then the brick wall.