Easy Prey, John Sandford
Easy Prey, John Sandford
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Easy Prey

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 12 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/25/2012


Synopsis

In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that’s demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined—one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared....

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.


Reviews

Lucas Davenport is called to deal with a new case, the murder of Alie'e Maison, one of the most famous models. She has been choked to death at a party after ingesting drugs and having sex with two other women. Lucas arrives at the scene of the crime and his mind is starting to create a suspect list......more

Goodreads review by Diane

Good series! intriguing,complicated but not a compelling storyline as the others..good writing as always (paperback!)......more

Goodreads review by John

I guess it was inevitable. After the high quality of the previous two Prey novel, a drop off had to come sometime. Luckily Sandford’s average is still higher than most. This time Davenport and his people investigate the murder of a fashion model and a bystander during a party at a socialite’s mansio......more

Goodreads review by James

Minnesota native Sharon Olson has blossomed into supermodel Alie'e Maison, and she now returns to Minneapolis for a very sexy photo shoot. Following a hard day's work, she spends a hard night partying at the home of a wealthy socialite. Alie'e shoots a little heroin, enjoys some playful sex with two......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

A supermodel is found strangled at a wild house party and her death is guaranteed to create a media frenzy. There are also two other factors complicating Lucas Davenport’s investigation. The first is that a another body is found in a closet at the house, and the second is that one of his cops, an un......more


Quotes

“You won’t want to miss it.” —Los Angeles Times“Captivating.” —Chicago Sun-Times“When you come out of the twists and turns that are Easy Prey, it is a marvel how [Sandford] could do this...he’s a writer in control of his craft.” —Chicago Sun-Times“Crackerjack suspense...[Sandford’s] at the top of his game again with Easy Prey.” —New York Post “Wildly successful...contains all the elements fans have come to expect: solid plot, gallows humor...sex, and the likeable, self-assured Davenport.” —Booklist“A grand guignol of a climax.” —Kirkus Reviews“Rapid-fire action...sharply evocative.”–Minneapolis Star TribuneEasy Prey is hard to put down.”—Richmond Times Dispatch“The dialogue is deft, the melodrama masterfully orchestrated and the conclusion truly culminant. As secrets explode, as bullets fly and bodies fall, and as the ground keeps shifting, there’s hardly time to keep up with the spectacle.” —The Los Angeles Times“[An] ever-entertaining series. As always, it’s a joy to follow this rare cop who gets led more often by his gut instinct than by clues. His humor, understated and perverse, can be wildly funny, and the people he runs across are shrewdly conceived originals.” —Publishers Weekly“Here’s hoping that John Sandford never retires Lucas Davenport or stops dreaming up diabolical killers for the supersleuth to battle. The author’s unbeatable at juggling suspense, comedy, sex...and [his] plots seem to be moving faster than ever.” —The New York Post“Lucas Davenport is always in top form, and with Easy Prey, Sandford has another winner to add to the Prey books.” —The Orlando Sentinel