Invisible Prey

john sandford

In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms ransacked and only small items stolen. It's clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely, Lucas Davenport with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so random, and whether there might not be some invisible agenda at work here.

Gradually, a pattern begins to emerge — and it will lead Davenport to somewhere he never expected. Which is too bad, because the killers — and yes, there are more than one — are expecting him.

Genres mysteryfictionthrillercrimemystery thrillersuspenseaudiobookdetectivepolicemurder mystery

384 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15,2007

Series

Lucas Davenport

Places

minneapolis-st. paul minnesota,

This edition

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Published: May 15, 2007 by Putnam Adult
ISBN: 9780399154218
ASIN: 0399154213
Language: English

Characters More characters

Lucas Davenport

Tall and dark. A solidly-built man. Initially a detective on the Minneapolis police force. Later his title is Office of Special Investigations - he operates semi-independently. Even later he rises to Deputy Chief. He has a rep for violence. Later he is wi...
Virgil Flowers

Flowers is an agent with the Minnesota BCA, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in Minneapolis. His boss, until #9, is Lucas Davenport who promises to give him "only the hard stuff." Flowers is from Mankato, Minn. His good friend is Johnson Johnson. His f...
Jenkins (invisible Prey)

A BCA Agent, dont tell anyone but he and Shrake may be the agencys two official thugs!more...
Weather Karkinnen

Lucas meets her in #5 in northern Wisconsin; shes a doctor in #26, Gabrielle is about 4 and Sam is in grade 3 and about 8. Plus theres their adopted daughter Let...
Del Capslock

An agent with first the MPD, and then the BCA. His cousin is Stephanie Bekker. Wounded by gunrunners in Texas during one case. Close to Lucas. His wife is Cheryl, a nurse. In Easy Prey, entry #11, he works with Detective Lane. Later, detective...
Rose Marie Roux

Initially the Chief of Police in Minneapolis. Then Lucas boss at the BCA where she is Commissioner of Public Safety. Shes a very political leader but a nervous one. On and off smoker. Large woman. Married to a tall, balding lawyer.more...

About the author

john sandford

John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He was in the U.S. Army from 1966-68, worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968-1970, and went back to the University of Iowa from 1970-1971, where he received a master's degree in journalism. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978-1990; in 1980, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Pulitzer in 1986 for a series of stories about a midwestern farm crisis. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. He is the principal financial backer of a major archeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at www.rehov.org In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He both hunts and fishes. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed.