"Strong police procedural"
A lot has changed for Lucas Davenport in the last year. He
married the love of his life Weather and they have an
infant son and have moved into a new home with a separate
apartment for the nanny/housekeeper. Rose Marie Roux is
still Lucas's boss but she is now the Minnesota Public
Safety Commissioner and Lucas reports directly to her and
the governor as the Director in the Office of Regional
Studies which is a part of The Bureau of Criminal
Apprehensions. Lucas gets the police cases that the local departments are
not equipped to deal with or are political hot potatoes.
His latest case involves a white woman and a black man hung
by a rope to a tree and strangled to death. Lucas doesn't
take long to identify the killer but when he goes to arrest
him, he finds someone already murdered the perpetrator and
his wife. Lucas returns to the small Northern Minnesota
town of Broderick to find another killer but he doesn't
realize that the small bucolic town is a cesspool of crime
and corruption, a place where his homicide is interrelated
to a series of other felonious acts. There is nobody who writes a police procedural better than
John Sandford. His plots are so complex that readers find
themselves unable to put the book down until the last page
is turned and all the loose ends are sewn up. NAKED PREY
is one of the best novels in the series because the hero
has undergone some radical changes both in his personal and
professional life and that keeps the series fresh. This is
a must read for fans of cop thrillers. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted April 15, 2003
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