Buried Prey

With the advent of the Virgil Flowers novels, I have felt that Lucas has taken a little bit of a backseat. The last couple of Prey books havent been quite up to Sandfords usual excellent style. Well, this one exceeded my expectations! I enjoyed the back story of Lucas beginnings and the plot was fast paced and suspenseful. HIghly recommended!

In the best of the John Sandford’s Prey novels, there are usually two or three scenes where he brings the reader to a kind of momentum nirvana. This is a point where you’re turning the pages as fast as your eyes can scan the words. These aren’t necessarily action scenes, although Sandford can do act......more

Probably one of my favorite in this series. On Buried Prey, we get to meet Lucas when he was just a young man. He is getting bored with his job as a patrolman and he is either thinking of climbing the ladder or leaving and going to law school instead. We see that Lucas was a womanizer and his love fo......more

This is the twenty-first John Sandford novel to feature Minnesota detective Lucas Davenport, and it's one of the best books in a truly great series. Twenty-five years ago, Davenport was a beat cop with a taste for fine clothes, fast cars and attractive women. He was also smart, ambitious and determin......more

With all the grocery-store thrillers cramming the wire racks, few are really worth the time and effort. BURIED PREY is not like those cheap knock-offs. Unlike those other stories, John Sandford's novel has depth, great characterization, superb plotting, and enough twists and turns to keep the reader......more

I chose a John Sandford - Lucas Davenport book to cleanse my palate after reading too much of a more contemporary novel. Sometimes a girl just has to go slumming. Delving into a Lucas Davenport book is like eating a big double cheeseburger. You know you should choose something more chic, but the dia......more