John Sandford
41) Rules of prey
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Series
Lucas Davenport volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, highly touted killer detective, invents intricate video games that he sells for cash. Called in to aid the Minneapolis team scrambling to stop a psychopathic serial woman-slayer, Lucas almost meets his match. The self-styled "mad dog" murderer views his rape/stabbings as a game as well, setting up obstacles for the police, carefully selecting his victims, and priding himself on clever moves.
42) Shadow prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A terrorist conspiracy, masterminded by a small group of Native Americans, embarks on a series of ritualistic murders, offing public officials known for their record of prejudice against Indians. Dakota medicine men Sam and Aaron Crow recruit killers whom they arm with obsidian knives on leather thongs and send out to cut the throats of victims in Minnesota, Oklahoma and New York--for starters. Both Sam and Aaron act as fathers to young Shadow Love...
43) Night prey
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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Lucas Davenport investigates a series of stabbing murders, while still recovering from his near-fatal wounds of the year before and at the same time trying, for once in his life, to settle down with one woman.
44) Sudden prey
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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After a woman bank robber is shot by a police team in Minneapolis, her husband and her friends proceed to revenge themselves by killing the team's families. A race against time as officer Lucas Davenport tries to catch them before his loved ones die.
45) Mind prey
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Lucas Davenport has met his match-a brilliant, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself. This man is more depraved and intelligent than anybody Lucas has tracked before-and with a female psychiatrist in his trap, he's already one step ahead of Lucas...
46) Saturn run
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage...
47) Eyes of prey
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
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Lucas Davenport, “one of the best hard-case cops on the crime scene today” (Houston Post) returns in this explosive novel in John Sandford's #1 New York Times bestselling Prey series...
Lieutenant Davenport’s sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse…Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all...
Lieutenant Davenport’s sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse…Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all...
48) Phantom prey
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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...
50) Broken prey
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Don't miss this “sexy, bloody thriller"(Publishers Weekly) in #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's Prey series...
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 Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn’t a bad love affair.
The second body is found...
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 Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn’t a bad love affair.
The second body is found...
51) Silent prey
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
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Make noise for a new Prey package and new author introduction!
Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best—murdering one helpless victim after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. Now he has a second opportunity—and the time to hesitate is through.
Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best—murdering one helpless victim after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. Now he has a second opportunity—and the time to hesitate is through.
52) Dead watch
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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At the request of the White House, Jake Winter investigates the disappearance of former Senator Lincoln Bowe. But the trail of clues leads Jake into the heart of a scandal that could cost him his life and topple the federal government.
53) Easy prey
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Lucas Davenport investigates an unsettling series of murders in this classic novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—and this one is John Sandford “at the top of his game” (New York Post)…
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....
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....
54) Hidden prey
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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“One of the strongest in Sandford’s Prey series.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Good, dark, perverse, bloody fun.”—The Washington Post Book World
Theories abound when a Russian gets himself killed on the shore of Lake Superior—shot with fifty-year-old bullets. But when it turns out he had very high government connections, state troubleshooter Lucas Davenport gets the call. Well,...
“Good, dark, perverse, bloody fun.”—The Washington Post Book World
Theories abound when a Russian gets himself killed on the shore of Lake Superior—shot with fifty-year-old bullets. But when it turns out he had very high government connections, state troubleshooter Lucas Davenport gets the call. Well,...
55) Chosen prey
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen in the company of a man with a nasty habit of superimposing...
56) Mortal prey
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord, and while the boy's father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn't: The boy wasn't the target-she was-and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself....
57) Winter prey
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
It's the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that's closing in on Lucas Davenport.
58) Secret prey
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse game with a killer who does not hesitate to take the fight to Lucas himself. And those he loves…
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
59) The Devil's code
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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“Crime fiction doesn’t have nearly enough droll master thieves like Kidd and his stunning partner in righteous crime, LuEllen.”—Los Angeles Times
When Kidd—artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal—learns of a colleague’s murder, he doesn’t buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It’s...
When Kidd—artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal—learns of a colleague’s murder, he doesn’t buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It’s...
60) Sudden Prey
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Revenge is the engine which powers this entry in John Sandford's Prey series starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team.