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Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)

John Sandford

Start date: January 1, 2024

Finish date: January 31, 2024

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Feb 13, 2012 Jonetta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-suspense-thriller, buddy-read, group-read, audiobook, 2024-library-love, 2024-audiobook-challenge, 3500-2022, re-read

2024 Review
the setup…
There’s a serial killer at large in Minneapolis who calls himself maddog. He preys on attractive women with dark hair, the “Chosen,” and after brutally murdering them, leaves a note with one of his “rules” for eluding capture. Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a seasoned investigator with unorthodox methods, is brought in to work with the homicide cops after the latest assault to find maddog and bring him down. But then maddog sees Davenport as a worthy adversary, turning his murd ...more

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Apr 12, 2014 Judy Hall rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-book-club, books-read-in-2014

A predator is stalking the city, leaving a unique signature – his rules of killing. Lucas Davenport is put on the task force to find the killer before the body count gets too high.

This story has enough twists to make it difficult to offer more than that without getting into spoilers. Although they may not be twists. There’s a lot of the same type of thing happening to, “Oh Surprise”, help the killer escape police clutches. Plot-wise, the story felt a little weak because of that.

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May 27, 2019 Alan Marston rated it really liked it

I had heard so much about John Sandford that I decided I really must try one of his books, so where better than the first Lucas Davenport novel. It took me all of three days to read it, because I was hooked from the very first page. A quite ingenious plot, a killer being very precise in his planning, a detective not afraid of bending the rules, a collection of women including two working for news companies, and missed chances allowing the killer to get away with it for so long. A great read, wil ...more

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