He wasn’t comfortable with the “resolution” of the case when it happened, but he was just breaking out of patrol work and accepted his supervisor’s decision on the case. Now, twenty-five years later, the bodies of the Jones sisters are discovered in a plastic bag beneath the concrete-floor basement of a house being torn down in Minneapolis, and Davenport is re-examining the case. He reviews his case notes from 1985 and realizes that because of his lack of experience, the notes weren’t incredibly helpful, however, from them he was able to reinterview a couple of witnesses who still remembered the missing girls. Hampered by lingering guilt, Lucas is driven to reconcile with the past: The image of the dead girls hung in his eyes. This book featured one of his first cases–the abduction and assumed murder of two young girls. As fans of Lucas Davenport know, Sandford is at his best in the Prey series, with taut plotting and an eye for the unpredictability of human behavior that can bring success or terrible tragedy. He is the author of twenty-one Prey novels, four Kidd novels, The Night Crew, Dead Watch and the four Virgil Flowers novels, Dark of the Moon, Heat Lightning, Rough Country and Bad Blood. It was cool to see Davenport as a “rookie” and see how he worked his way up through the ranks to his current role as an investigator in the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. In Buried Prey, Sandford reintroduces the young and ambitious Lucas Davenport when he started on the police force.
#BURIED PREY BOOK REVIEW SERIES#
And finding Buried Prey at Half Priced Books was a deal I most definitely could not pass up! A bonus for those who don’t know, the Prey series all take place in the Twin Cities! His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. He’s an author of which I repeatedly purchase without hesitation, ESPECIALLY if it’s a “Prey” book. In that year Davenport was a young cop with a lot of fantasies and dreaminess, and when he tried case of the disappearance of girl, was a great good luck. And as Davenport investigates, it becomes clear: It wasn't just the bodies that were buried, but the truth - and there are a lot of people with a very strong stake in that truth never being uncovered.I have been a big John Sandford fan since I read his first “Prey” book long ago. With the bodies discovered, the case is dusted off, just to tie a bow around it - but there's something wrong with the evidence. He argued hard about it to his bosses, but nobody wanted to hear.
He'd gotten deep into the case, and while he was convinced the suspect knew something, he didn't think he was the perpetrator - something just felt off. Appropriately in an election year, John Sandford (a pseudonym for John Camp) writes a political thriller that goes to the heart of modern politics-in this case, the discontent of Midwestern farmers hit hard by the economic recession. The searches turned up nothing, so when the suspected kidnapper was killed in a shoot-out, the case was closed. Book review: John Sandfords Extreme Prey. A superb undercover guy, he was part of the massive police effort that followed the kidnapping of two girls who were never found again, dead or alive.
In 1985, Davenport was a young cop just about to be promoted out of uniform, despite a reputation for playing fast and loose with the rules. It looks like they've been down there a long time. The bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic, are discovered underneath an old house. When a whole block is torn down in central Minneapolis to make way for a new housing development, an unpleasant surprise is unearthed.
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