Judgment Prey, John Sandford
Judgment Prey, John Sandford
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Judgment Prey

Bestseller

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 11 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/03/2023


Synopsis

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

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 turn to his grieving widow, Margaret Cooper, to see what she might do with the money. Margaret, distraught over the death of her family, struggles to move forward, and can’t imagine how or why anyone would target her husband.

With public pressure mounting and both the local police force and FBI hitting dead end after dead end, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to do what others could not: find answers. With each potential lead flawed, Davenport and Flowers are determined to chase every theory until they figure out who killed the Sands. But when they find themselves being stonewalled by the most unlikely of forces, the two wonder if perhaps each misdirection could lead them closer to the truth.

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

Goodreads review by David on October 22, 2023

For me John Sanford books are always five stars. He is one my favorite authors, if not the favorite. I’ve read his Prey series three times, though the earlier Prey books have a bit more depth. Judgement Prey is back to form. This is not an action—running gun battle-kinda story. This is a whodunit wi......more

Goodreads review by LIsa Noell "Rocking the chutzpah!" on October 14, 2023

My thanks to Penguin Group, John Sandford and Netgalley. I've been reading Sandford books since the 1990's. I actually discovered him the same day I found John Connolly. So, of course Davenport and Charlie Parker are somehow entwined. For me at least. Another thing. I've read many, many series of book......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 15, 2024

I believe that John Sandford and Michael Connelly are the best storytellers in modern crime fiction. Lawrence Block is in the picture, too. You don’t get lost in their stories. The telling is ‘clean’, the actions believable. Sandford often tells the story from the point of view of the chased as well......more

Goodreads review by Scottsdale Public Library on January 23, 2024

Sandford’s Davenport and Flowers are at it again, solving curious crimes when the path to finding the killer is not curvy and crazy. The cold-blooded murder of a judge and his two kids is just heartbreaking as it is unthinkable. Getting Davenport back into the crime-solving saddle from his long recu......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on March 02, 2025

One of my favorites in the series! A federal judge and his two sons have been murdered in their home. Plenty of people might have had a motive to kill the judge, but why were the kids targeted? This is the mystery Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers must unravel. This dynamic duo is fantastic! I love e......more


Quotes

“The sequel to Righteous Prey reunites Davenport and Flowers in an intricate crime novel. The strong characters, known for their deep friendship and jokey relationship, will continue to appeal to fans of the long-running series.” Library Journal (starred review)