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Night Prey (Lucas Davenport #6)
John Sandford's bestselling Lucas Davenport series continues with the fast-paced, compelling thriller, Night Prey. A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up...
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July 1st 1994
by Simon & Schuster Audio
(first published January 1st 1994)
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i've read a few from sanford...what number this one is i'd have to look at the shelf. glanced at one review said something about 'koop is a prison guard...' this that the other. heh...i just finished Swan Peak from James Lee Burke and in that one there is a prison guard....troyce nix...i wonder how this story will stack up alongside burke's?
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the night was warm, the twilight inviting: middle-aged couples in pastel shirts, holding hands, strolled the old cracked sidewalks along the mississip...more
begins:
the night was warm, the twilight inviting: middle-aged couples in pastel shirts, holding hands, strolled the old cracked sidewalks along the mississip...more
GR readers, I salute you. I finished 'Night Prey', loved it and the pure GOTH of it, went to GR to add it to my book lists - and got blown away by all of the terrific reviews. I've spent a delicious morning reading them. Wow.
Lucas Davenport is on the police force once again, having been appointed Deputy Chief by Rose Marie Roux, the new police Chief in Minneapolis. Weather Karkinnen, the surgeon he met in the last book, is more than a girlfriend to him at this point, but as usual, Davenport is h...more
Lucas Davenport is on the police force once again, having been appointed Deputy Chief by Rose Marie Roux, the new police Chief in Minneapolis. Weather Karkinnen, the surgeon he met in the last book, is more than a girlfriend to him at this point, but as usual, Davenport is h...more
This is another excellent addition to Sanford's "Prey" series - but it nearly didn't get read by me. As a writer/editor myself (albeit always nonfiction), I'm hyper-sensitive to analogies; they make my stomach churn faster than a hamster on a wheel at full gallop. And within the first chapter-and-a-half of this book, here's what hit me between the eyes:
Nighthawks...their wing-flashes like the silver bars on new first-lieutenants
...petunias spread across their beds like Mennonite quilts
Hate burne...more
Nighthawks...their wing-flashes like the silver bars on new first-lieutenants
...petunias spread across their beds like Mennonite quilts
Hate burne...more
Aug 04, 2012
Mysterious Ed
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
law-enforcement
#6 is a transitional novel in the Lucas Davenport saga (2012 sees #21). He has been bounced from the Minneapolis PD by the old chief but has been brought in as a political appointee - assistant chief - by the new chief Anne Marie Roux to be her hatchet man. Roux is the consummate politicial and Davenport is perfectly suited, tempermentally, to his role. (If Roux were Nixon - he'd still be President)
Lucas Davenport series - Charged with saving the political life of Rose Marie Roux, he's given the...more
Lucas Davenport series - Charged with saving the political life of Rose Marie Roux, he's given the...more
Koop was a prison guard. Koop is a muscled machine. Koop is addicted to cocaine. Koop is addicted to Sara Jensen. Koop is a serial killer. Lucas Davenport is called in when a woman is found disemboweled in a dumpster. He teams up with Meagan Connell who is given 6 months maybe to live. She has worked serial cases before and has an awesome closing rate. Her and Davenport do not see eye to eye on the way they should work the case, but somehow they make it work. With Connell dying from cancer, she...more
Koop wanted Sara Jensen and he wanted her badly. But since Koop is a bad man and he doesn't know how to control his anger, he kills innocent, ordinary women. So after Koop has killed 2 to 3 women, they send in Lucas Davenport who is apart of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, to stop Koop from killing more. Then after a couple more killings by Koop and really no good clues to work off of, Lucas finally gets the break he needs and stops Koop from killing...more
Lucas Davenport is carrying a badge once again. He has a new chief of police, a new politically appointed position, he's a deputy chief with the department, and a new love in his life. Weather has moved in with him, and taken a surgical position with the local hospital.
As part of his new job, Lucas cleans up potential political messes. A state cop, Megan Connell, is stirring up one of these messes. Megan is an angry female cop with a huge chip on her shoulder. Lucas is asked to look into Megan's...more
As part of his new job, Lucas cleans up potential political messes. A state cop, Megan Connell, is stirring up one of these messes. Megan is an angry female cop with a huge chip on her shoulder. Lucas is asked to look into Megan's...more
Lucas Davenport is tracking the sex-crazed perpetrator of a series of knife murders of young women. The killer is obsessed with Sara Jenson stalking and spying on her. One of Lucas' colleague in this case is feminist Meagan Connell, an abrasive State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator who's obsessed with catching the killer before she dies of cancer.
He has another new partner, Greaves, formerly assigned to the grade schools as "Officer Friendly", and who is trying to get Davenport to h...more
He has another new partner, Greaves, formerly assigned to the grade schools as "Officer Friendly", and who is trying to get Davenport to h...more
Lucas Davenport is back with Minneapolis Police Department. This time Koop, a cat burglar turned serial killer is the protagonist. The reader knows from the start who the killer is. The mystery is how he will be caught. Koop is brilliant and stark raving mad.
Meagan Connell, a state investigator wants to arrest Koop before she dies of cancer. She teams up with Davenport and the story is shown from both sides of good vs evil.
Davenport's love interest is the lovely doctor Weather but he is tempted...more
Meagan Connell, a state investigator wants to arrest Koop before she dies of cancer. She teams up with Davenport and the story is shown from both sides of good vs evil.
Davenport's love interest is the lovely doctor Weather but he is tempted...more
Lucas Davenport is back and working with the Minneapolis PD. He’s got a heck of a case on his hands—a serial killer named Koop who enjoys disemboweling his victims. Koop is also a burglar and a stalker. Isn’t that nice?
Helping him on the case is Meagan Connell, a state investigator who is determined to catch a killer. This case is particularly urgent for Connell, since she’s dying of cancer.
You know how the rest of the story goes. I liked this one because part of the story takes place in Saint P...more
Helping him on the case is Meagan Connell, a state investigator who is determined to catch a killer. This case is particularly urgent for Connell, since she’s dying of cancer.
You know how the rest of the story goes. I liked this one because part of the story takes place in Saint P...more
This is the sixth book in John Sandford's Lucas Davenport series. These are never brain surgery but it's fun to see the way Lucas and his crew works and there is always a pretty good degree of tension. Lucas tends to be kind of a dog but a smart one. This one makes me wonder if he's growing up. Have to wait and see. I'm sure I'll get more, I just wished I wasn't going to have to switch to Abridged if I want to listen to some of them. I really don't want abridged......
Like the narrator. He works...more
Like the narrator. He works...more
"The nightgown more substantial, less diaphanous than it seemed in Koop's mind, but Koop had fallen in love"
This is on fast-paced book, starting with a cat burglar, Koop, falling in love with the victim who was sleeping while he is robbing her apartment and continuing with the obsession that envelops him and leads him to kill other women. Add to that a cop that is about to die from cancer and has a visceral need to find the killer and leads her to work with Lucas Davenport in the case, and you h...more
This is on fast-paced book, starting with a cat burglar, Koop, falling in love with the victim who was sleeping while he is robbing her apartment and continuing with the obsession that envelops him and leads him to kill other women. Add to that a cop that is about to die from cancer and has a visceral need to find the killer and leads her to work with Lucas Davenport in the case, and you h...more
Feb 10, 2012
Kristin
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
audio-books,
mystery
I read this as an audiobook.
From Publishers Weekly: In this sixth entry in his Prey series, streetwise Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport is beleaguered by perplexing females. Charged with saving the political life of Rose Marie Roux, the ambitious police chief who has her eye on a Senate seat, he's given the assignment of tracking to ground the sex-crazed perpetrator of a series of murders of young women. Davenport's unwelcome colleague in this case is feminist Meagan Connell, an...more
From Publishers Weekly: In this sixth entry in his Prey series, streetwise Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport is beleaguered by perplexing females. Charged with saving the political life of Rose Marie Roux, the ambitious police chief who has her eye on a Senate seat, he's given the assignment of tracking to ground the sex-crazed perpetrator of a series of murders of young women. Davenport's unwelcome colleague in this case is feminist Meagan Connell, an...more
The sixth book in the long-running Prey series (21 books as of 2011) has a particularly sinister villain, somewhat reminiscent of the Terminator. He's stronger than anyone, completely focused, and seemingly unstoppable in his rage. Lucas Davenport, the tough, not-quite-by-the-rules investigator, is now back with the Minneapolis police and living with Weather Karkinnen, an equally tough surgeon. His womanizing days are apparently over, but temptation still strikes. Can he resist? Lucas is forced...more
Apr 15, 2012
James Thane
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
crime-fiction,
lucas-davenport
As is often the case in this series, Lucas Davenport, the police detective protagonist, is confronted by a particularly clever and chilling antagonist. Here it's a creep named Koop who, over a long period of time, has been kidnapping and savagely killing women in several jurisdictions around the greater Minneapolis area.
Since Koop has operated over a large geographic area, no one has tumbled to the fact that a serial killer is at work. Finally a somewhat abrasive feminist Minnesota State Investi...more
Since Koop has operated over a large geographic area, no one has tumbled to the fact that a serial killer is at work. Finally a somewhat abrasive feminist Minnesota State Investi...more
A cat burglar named Koop has escalated to killing women. Megan Connel, state investigator from the BCA who is also dying from cancer, is the only one who has put the seemingly random killings together and determined it is one man. The killings suddenly escalate and Davenport is paired with Connel in a race to find the killer's obsession, and catch him before he kills again and Megan's time runs out. Weather, the doctor from Wisconsin we met in the last book, has moved in with Lucas.
John Sandford has such a gift for writing creepy characters that can be believable and terrifying. Here, in Night Prey, the author gives us another take involving flawed protagonist Lucas Davenport. Davenport’s life is taking turns that he didn’t expect and they case maks it even more unpredictable. The killer’s motivations and actions are eerie and Davenport and his cohorts make logical steps in solving the crimes. Overall, a very good book in a very good series!
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PB - An Early Prey book with another crazy running around killing women. Lucas Davenport is on the case but with very few clues is getting nowhere fast as the victims pile up and the killer gets bolder and more desperate. He is helped by Megan Connell, a state investigator who is determined to catch the killer before her cancer catches up to her. Typical fast moving Prey book.
ISBN - 0-425-14641-3, Suspense, Pages - 400, Print Size - R, Rating - 4.25
ISBN - 0-425-14641-3, Suspense, Pages - 400, Print Size - R, Rating - 4.25
Koop-a serial killer is breaking into homes and stealing valuable things (jewelery and money mostly) to support his drug habit. He's also killing people. You know who he is from the beginning and the story is about Lucas catching him. It's like his other books, but in a good way. The only part I didn't really enjoy was the woman who is paired with Lucas to find the guy has cancer and wants to find the killer before she dies.
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I was disappointed with Lucas's pull toward Jan Reed in this one, but I guess that is to be expected with Lucas and his love for the ladies. Still, I hope he has the conviction to resist his urges, and I hope he remains faithful to Weather.
As far as the anagonist was concerned, Koop was a real Neanderthal. I have decided I like it better when Sandford doesn't immediately reveal the murderer; that way, I can try to solve the puzzle with the clues provided.
As far as the anagonist was concerned, Koop was a real Neanderthal. I have decided I like it better when Sandford doesn't immediately reveal the murderer; that way, I can try to solve the puzzle with the clues provided.
In this book Davenport is back on the payroll with the Minneapolis Police and hunting a predator who is preying on women that remind him of his Obsession. Davenport is faced with a serial killer who is killing innocent women and carving initials into the victims. Davenport must find the killer before the killer's obsession becomes the next victim.
This is more of a police procedural than a mystery. It combines excellent writing about police work with great insight into the mind of a serial killer who has gone off the deep end, and finds his impulses to kill are out of control. Most of the time the killer lives a relatively normal life and supports himself working as a cat burglar. However, for several years, once a year, he murders a young woman by ripping her abdomen open with a knife. He has escaped notice for the most part, by operatin...more
Another of the few Sandford misses.
It's not fun to follow an investigation
if you are also following everything the killer does...
where's the mistery?
And also, this is one nasty killer to be following around
I really prefer to spend my time on the other side of the street.
It's not fun to follow an investigation
if you are also following everything the killer does...
where's the mistery?
And also, this is one nasty killer to be following around
I really prefer to spend my time on the other side of the street.
Feb 02, 2010
Kaye
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery_suspense,
read_in_2010
This was the only prey book that I haven't liked. As a matter of fact, 2/3 of the way through I began skimming. Koop was kind of a dull criminal, and Lucas' wishy-washy thoughts about whether he wanted to stray from Weather were boring and predictable. Hopefully, the next book will be up to usual standards.
These Lucas Davenport books are very much a guilty pleasure. They're predictable in that there is always a really nasty villain who gets taken down in some dramatic fashion. The style is easily digested and very entertaining. Lucas is always on to his next romantic conquest.
I re-read this book recently, and discovered I enjoyed it just as much as I did the first time. It had been several years, and while I remembered many of the details, that didn't take away at all from my enjoyment of the book. John Sandford's Prey series is excellent.
Another Lucas Davenport book that was predictably enjoyable. I will never assume that no one can see in my windows again. No matter how safe it seems. I also learned a lot about cat burglars and how unsafe we can make ourselves. Fun book, though
I've read every book John Sandford has written. I buy them in hard cover because once I know he has a new one out I cannot wait for the paperback. Davenport, Flowers and Kidd are some of the most memorable antagonists you'll ever meet.
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John Sandford was born John Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He was in th...more
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