5/21/2023 0 Comments Certain prey by john sandford![]() ![]() On the plus side, Sandford does a very effective job of creating a really involving, page-turning read, with excellent plotting that throws curves into the story which you often don’t see coming, but which are completely logical outgrowths of the situation and never forced. ![]() ![]() The element of detection is in seeing how the forces of justice will prove what we already know. And although I classified it as a mystery, the who-done-it, why and how of the contract killing here isn’t a mystery to the reader we’re shown the personae, planning, and execution (literally) of the crime at the outset. Series sleuth Lucas Davenport, a Minneapolis homicide detective (who, by the time of this novel, is actually a deputy police chief) isn’t really the protagonist here structurally, at least for much of the book, the two pistol-packing female villains are really the co-protagonists, and Davenport the antagonist (albeit one who’s on the side of good). Usually, I prefer to read a series in order, but this installment can be read just as well out of sequence. This tenth novel in Sandford’s popular Lucas Davenport series was my first experience with his work. ![]()
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