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Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)
by: John Sandford

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399155000
ISBN: 0399155007
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: May 06, 2008
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
Sales Rank: 185

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Product Description:
Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey novel from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author.

John Sandfords most recent Davenport novel, Invisible Prey, was hailed as one of his best books in recent memory (The Washington Post); as fresh and entertaining as ever (Chicago Sun-Times); and rivetingly readable (Richmond Times-Dispatch). But this time, hes got something quite special in store.

A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no bodyand her collegeaged daughter missing. Shes always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call themGoths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this.

But the police cant find the girl, alive or dead, and when a second Goth is found slashed to death in Minneapolis, the widow truly panics. Theres someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, and she implores Weather to get him directly involved. Lucas begins to investigate only reluctantlybut then when a third Goth is slashed in what is now looking like a Jackthe- Ripper series of killings, he starts working it hard. The clues dont seem to add up, though. And then theres the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here . . . something very, very bad indeed?

Filled with his brilliant trademark suspense and some of the most interesting characters in thriller fiction, Phantom Prey is further proof that Sandford is in a class of his own (The Orlando Sentinel).

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Rating: - Phantom Prey
As always John Sandfor's Lucas Davenport books are great. Look forward to another one.

Rating: - Farfetched, but Davenport is always a treat
Sandford's 18th Prey novel finds his dapper Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator, Lucas Davenport, agreeing to look into a case for his surgeon wife, Weather.

Weather's friend, Alyssa Austin, a wealthy widow and owner of a chain of exclusive fitness emporiums, came home one evening to find her heiress daughter Frances' blood in her house, but no trace of the girl. She has never been found and is presumed dead. Now Frances' friends are dying too, victims of a knife-wielding fairy.

A fairy, Davenport learns, is a Goth term for a small, waiflike young Goth woman. The reader has already met her and her partner, another Goth named Loren, and the two are enjoying the killings a little more each time. Threading his way through the Goth milieu Davenport is ... Read More

Rating: - Bone Chilling suspense
The evidence of the crime was all but wiped clean. If not for Alyssa Austin's nagging sense of unease, Frances Austin's disappearance would not have been noted for days, weeks, or even months after her death.

Frances Austin was dead, the cops were reasonably sure about that. So they didn't have the body, a suspect, or a motive. The amount of blood mopped up the night of her disappearance made it a good bet.

Alyssa, Frances's mother wasn't convinced. Frances couldn't be dead. The police needed to get out there and look for her. Desperate, she turned to her friend Weather, Lucas Davenport's wife, asking her to intercede on her behalf. Lucas Davenport was a good cop. He would get to the bottom of it.

Luke didn't want to get involved. He was a BCA ... Read More

Rating: - Suspenseful!
Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)

Another great murder mystery to solve that will leave you guessing until the end.

Rating: - Worst of his series
This read like a book he had to write to fill a publisher's committment. Simple and very thin plot: Make the villian a split personality a wrap up the ending quick like he has to catch a bus.

Sanford took the easy way out on this. Davenport was the same tough character, but the writer seems to have lost the story creativity he had in his earlier novels.

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