Broken Prey
He is at the top of his game. You want to know the only thing wrong with this guy? He makes it look easy."But there is nothing easy about what Lucas Davenport faces now.The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas knows, is pushed by brain chemistry, there is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair.
The second body is found a week later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display — except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two murders, nothing to indicate that the killings end here.
And soon he is going to do far, far worse than that. A suspect emerges early: a man recently released from a prison hospital and who now seems to have cut himself free from his court-imposed ankle bracelet and disappeared. But the more Lucas investigates, the more he wonders: Is this really the man? Could he really have done this all by himself? And where has he gone to, anyway? And meanwhile, a predator waits....
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John Sandford
John Sandford writes crime fiction that moves with the restless energy of the streets it describes. His novels are known for their sharp observation, moral tension, and an unsettling closeness to real violence, the kind that feels sudden and personal rather than theatrical. Long before his books filled bestseller lists, Sandford trained his eye as a journalist, learning how to notice the small, telling details that reveal who people really are under pressure. That background still shapes his fiction, where every scene feels grounded in lived experience.
Lucas Davenport
The Lucas Davenport series drops readers into a world where intelligence, impatience, and moral compromise collide. From the first pages, these novels establish a distinctive rhythm, fast moving, observant, and quietly unsettling. Crime is not treated as a puzzle to be neatly solved, but as a disruptive force that ripples outward, affecting institutions, relationships, and the people tasked with restoring order.
Lucas Davenport consists of thirty-six books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
