Read Series: Lucas Davenport
by Author John Sandford
Phantom Prey (2008)
A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood on the walls, no body — and her college-age daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them — Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup a...
Sudden Prey (1997)
Eighth in the Lucas Davenport thriller series based in Minneapolis.My TakeGeez, the cops are screwed if they try to follow the rules, and they’re screwed if they try to save lives. They caught the bank robbers, shouldn’t that cut some slack?? Yeah, and then there’s the other side. The cops who’ll...
Silent Prey (1993)
Fourth in the Lucas Davenport thriller series based in Minneapolis, and revolving around an ex-cop. This story takes place in New York City, two years after Eyes of Prey, 3, and fulfills the promise in its introduction *shudder*.My TakeThis is horrifying. Sandford sets the mood with the courtro...
Certain Prey (2004)
Note, April 1, 2015: I updated this review slightly just now, to correct a typo (misspelled word).This tenth novel in Sandford's popular Prey series is my first experience with his work; usually, I prefer to read a series in order, but the friend who recommended this one felt (probably correctly)...
Rules of Prey (2005)
I finally lost it for this book when the police officers murder an innocent man who was protecting his property. I'm pretty sure the cops weren't uniformed because they were undercover at the time. So the man didn't know they were cops when he shot at them in self defense.The cops flippant attitu...
Broken Prey (2006)
This is number 16 in Sanford’s Prey series and one of the most complex to date. After Davenport’s successful attempt to break up a Russian spy ring in the last book, he is back to the brutal, violent and twisted killers, trying to solve horrific murders. Although Lucas had questions about his ...
Night Prey (1997)
Sixth in the Lucas Davenport thriller series set in Minneapolis and revolving around the reinstated Detective Davenport. It’s been two years since Lucas was forced to quit.My TakeGotta give Sandford credit for this twist: a detective who’s fired, goes off to build his successful gaming company, a...
Winter Prey (1994)
Fifth in the Lucas Davenport thriller series revolving around an ex-cop who misses the action. This story takes place in Grant, in northern Wisconsin, in the depths of winter.My TakeMan, another good one from Sandford. It’s terrifying how easy it is for someone like the Iceman to exist within a c...
Mind Prey (1996)
Seventh in the Lucas Davenport thriller series based in Minneapolis.My TakeSandford sets the story so we’ll empathize when the action heats up. A sub plot is that ring Davenport keeps bouncing around, slipping on and off his finger, rumors are rife and the betting hot, lol. Sandford is just plain...
Shadow Prey (2006)
Second in the Lucas Davenport thriller series set in Minneapolis and revolving around Lucas Davenport. My TakeThis one is so disgusting. It makes me so angry that cops would abuse their power like this. It’s bad enough that any man would do this to a young girl, but for cops…it’s just worse…arghh...
Secret Prey (2004)
If a CEO gets killed in the forest and no one is around to hear him fall, does he make a sound?Five top executives from a bank have gone into the woods on a deer hunting trip, but only four come out alive after someone tried to make a murder look like an accidental shooting. The dead man was the...
Invisible Prey (2007)
Seventeenth in the Lucas Davenport series and revolving around a maverick detective determined on justice no matter how or who. It's based in Minneapolis.My TakeLucas Davenport is an interesting character. Definitely a complex one. I recently read that Sandford thought of him as a kind of sociopa...
Chosen Prey (2002)
Twelfth in the Lucas Davenport thriller series and revolving around an unorthodox cop in Minneapolis. It's been a year since Easy Prey, 11.My TakeWhat I like about this series is that it's standard mystery/thriller reading, but Sandford's characters come out so real. That encounter between Luca...
Easy Prey (2004)
Eleventh in the Lucas Davenport thriller series and revolving around a cop who will do what he must to get the right bad guy. This is set in Minnesota.My TakeIt's plain old police work on this, but Sandford spiffs it up with all the oddities: the drugs, the relationships between all the partiers,...
Wicked Prey (2009)
This detective novel is about a well-organized, but brutal, criminal gang that attempts to rob the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN in 2008. It is quite realistic, IMO. The book contains very few editing errors, and only one minor inconsistency that I noted: The author asserts tha...
Storm Prey (2000)
The Lucas Davenport series is pretty good. I've skipped around in it, and had no problem regarding background. The Minneapolis/St. Paul setting holds up nicely, except for one spot where Davenport was heading east toward St. Paul, and the next paragraph says he was still heading west. I would ...
Stolen Prey (2012)
I had a little trouble keeping up my interest at the beginning of this story but the more I read the better it was. Towards the end I didn't want to put it down. Mainly, the story had to do with some computer people figuring out how to siphon off money from the drug cartel's money laundering acc...