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Lethal Prey

By: John Sandford
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to track down a ruthless killer who will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found.

Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true-crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Dozens of true-crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and ‘clicks,’ and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead.

When one of the bloggers locates the murder weapon, Lucas and Virgil begin to uncover vital details about the killer’s identity. But what they don’t know is the killer lurks in plain sight, and with the true-crime bloggers blasting every clue online, the killer can keep one step ahead. As the nation manoeuvres the detectives closer to the truth, Lucas and Virgil will find that digging up Doris’s harrowing past might just get them buried instead.

©2025 John Camp (P)2025 Penguin Random House
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Probably my least favourite. I have high expectations of John Sanford’s novels and this one was disappointing. Ending abruptly and with no real conclusion, lethal prey does not do the author justice.

Disappointing

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I just love the way John writes his stories. There's momentum, action and even if it's padded here and there it feels like it enhances the storely and fills the environment.

Classic Sandford

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Sadly the Prey books have become formulaic like Sandford is tied to a contract and his heart is no longer in it. Having said that this story has a lot of promise and started well only to collapse at the end. Sad.

Terrible ending

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