John Sandford
41) Deep freeze
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly--in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned out, homicidal - local school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice....
43) Extreme prey
Author
Series
Prey volume 26
Language
English
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Description
"After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of is--until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor. and anyone who gets in the way"--
44) Bloody genius
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 12
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among...
45) Mad River
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run down three teenagers with dead-end lives who are on a crime spree in Minnesota and who think they are just like Bonnie and Clyde, and their sidekick.
47) Masked prey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures--of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of extremist groups. It's obviously alarming--there's an unstated but deadly threat...
48) Broken prey
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Language
English
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Description
Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a gruesome killer. The main suspect, Charlie Pope, was recently released from a mental hospital, where he was locked up with a trio of sadistic murderers. But there are two problems: Charlie hardly seems intelligent enough to be a serial killer--and he has disappeared.
49) Silken prey
Author
Series
Prey novel volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...
51) Deadline
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 8
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers...
52) Bad blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Virgil Flowers is called in to investigate when a Minnesota farmer is found dead in his grain bin and a local boy confesses to the crime, and as he learns more about the killer, the victim, and the community, Flowers uncovers a generations-old conspiracy filled with shocking crimes and deadly secrets.
53) Neon prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport pursues a prolific serial killer who has gone undetected for years in the newest nail-biter by best selling author John Sandford. It was a relatively minor criminal matter, but enough that the U.S. Marshals obtained a warrant to enter the home. They didn't expect to unearth trophies from a score of killings. Now Davenport is on the trail of a serial murderer, one who was able to operate for years without notice or suspicion. But there's...
54) Storm front
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Minnesota cop Virgil Flowers teams up with an Israeli cop who is tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic -- a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Problems mount when teams of murderous bad guys believe Virgil and the woman cop are getting in their way of claiming the relic for themselves.
55) Ocean prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen...
56) Stolen prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the small upscale Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There is something about the murder scene that pokes at Detective Lucas Davenport's cop instincts, leading him into the darkest nightmare of his life.
57) Righteous prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford"--
"We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as "The Five," shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers...
58) Easy prey
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Detective Lucas Davenport is called in to solve a double murder involving one of the world's best-known high-fashion models, while also trying to contend with the reappearance of an old lover in his life.
59) Dark angel
Author
Series
Letty Davenport novel volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Letty Davenport, the tough-as-nails adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes on an undercover assignment that brings her across the country and into the crosshairs of a dangerous group of hackers"--
Letty Davenport's days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas--and her incredible skills with firearms--draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more...