A master of the mystery genre. Sanford's pacing of the plot is impeccable and the way his recurring protagonist, Lucas Davenport, solves the crime is very believable. It has been many years since I read the first Prey book and so I may not be remembering correctly but it seems to me that Sanford may be mellowing. In my mind his early novels were almost horror novels, more like Silence of the Lamb; while these latest Prey novels seem to me to have less gore and thrills and more detailed detective work.

The way Lucas Davenport solves the crimes in this book seems like the way a real police detective would solve a crime. Lots of searching down blind alleys and less intuitive leaps. There were times I wanted to call out to Davenport, "you don't need to look down that avenue of inquiry". In the end though all those hours of detective work come together to make the solving of the crime very realistic. I really believed that Davenport worked hard to solve the crime and stop the killers.

I am sure I am not making sense but I am saying it is a very good mystery. I listened to this one and the narrator was great.