tom cruise (goodreads)

A real person. (1962- ) An American actor in many dramatic and action movies, including 'A Few Good Men,' and the 'Mission: Impossible' series. …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...
Leslie And Jane Little Widdler

Husband and wife antique specialists. They run Widdler Antiques in Edina, Minnesota. Their main competition in the antiques business is Carmody & Loan....
Amity Anderson

Shes a friend of Clair Donaldson. In her 20s, Claires secretary and lives in the same house.more...
Marilyn Coombs

An elderly woman and long-time client of the Widdlers. Her daughter is Lucy and her granddaughter is Gabriella Coombs. The youngest Coombs knew Clair Donaldson, 72, of Chippewa Falls who was also an art collector....
Ruffe Ignace

A newspaper reporter in the Twin Cities. Red-hair. Both Flowers and Davenport have worked with him occasionally. He likes to get exclusives....
Shrake

A BCA Agent, he and Jenkins are a team. They get called in when Davenport or Flowers need special work....
Sandy (heat Lightning)

A researcher with the BCA in the twin cities. Virgils go-to person for information. They may have had a thing. About 20.more...
Sloan (eyes Of Prey)

A detective with the Minneapolis Police Department who often works with Lucas Davenport. By #17, Invisible Prey, he has retired and opened a restaurant.more...
Kidd (extreme Prey)

A computer genius for many things illegal. Friend of Davenports. Wife is Lauren, a jewel thief. more...
Picasso (goodreads)

A real person. Pablo Picasso was one of the great artists of the 20th century. Born 1881, died 1973. From Spain but lived in France most of his life. His Guernica from 1937 is one of the best depictions of the horrors of war ever - in this cas...
Sigmund Freud (goodreads)

A real person. (1856-1939) Developed psychoanalysis as a process and a science. One of the greats....
Barbra Streisand And John Kennedy Jr. (goodreads)

Real people. Barbra (Barbara) Streisand, born 1942, is a leading American singer and actress, and has been for most of her life. John Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999) was the only son of President John Kennedy and his wife Jackie....
Mozart (goodreads)

A real person. (1756-1791) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the greatest composers of all-time. From symphonies to opera, over 800 pieces....
Governor Henderson

Governor Elmer Henderson is 6 feet tall, with blond-gray hair. A Democrat. Elected to the post a year before "Naked Prey." Mid 40s. A nervous politician.more...
Neil Mitford

Governor Hendersons executive assistant. Short, burly and constantly worried about politics and potentially damaging situations.more...
Letty Davenport

Adopted by Lucas and Weather Davenport when she was about 12. See Letty West - her birth name....
Lauren Hutton (goodreads)

A real person. (1943- ) An American actress and model for fashion magazine covers and makeup....
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (goodreads)

A real person. (1886-1969) A German-American architect and furniture designer. He left German because of the rise of the Nazis. He designed the Seagram Building in New York....
Woody Allen (goodreads)

A real person. (1935- ) An American comedian, movie director and actor. Hes been nominated for Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards 16 times; his films have won 12 times in various categories. Some say Annie Hall in 1977 was his best.&h...
Jesus Christ (goodreads)

A real person. (6 or 4 BC - 30 or 33 AD) A Jewish rabbi and teacher and the central figure in Christianity. AKA the Son of God, the Saviour, the Messiah, etc. The first 4 books of the Christian Bibles New Testament are closely related to his life an...
Agatha Christie

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot Agatha Christie...
The Munsters (goodreads)

Fictional characters. The Munsters was an American TV sitcom which ran from 1964 to 1966. It was about a family of lovable vampires, freaks, and monsters; it starred Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, and Al Lewis....
Miz Peebles

Mrs. Peebles is a slender black woman in her 60s. Nickname, Sugar. Her nephew is Ronnie Lash, in grade 10 - tall and slender....
Big And Little (invisible Prey)

Two killers cruising Summit Avenue in Minneapolis - theres an obvious reason for their nicknames!more...
Fleckstein

Hes a jewellry fence known to Big and Little.more...
Norah Jones (goodreads)

A real person. (1973- ) An American singer and songwriter with an accent on jazz but she adds pop, blues and country. Plays piano....
Burt Kline

Lucas and Sloan have known him most of their lives. A politician. Now president of Minnesota State Senate. Klines son is Burt Jr.more...
A 15 / 16-year-old Teenage Girl (invisible Prey)

She claims to have had sex with Burt Kline. Her mother is Kathy Barth, 34 and divorced. The teenagers name is Jesse - whose boyfriend is Mike who has a dog named Screw!more...
Constance Bucher

An elderly lady living in a wealthy Minneapolis neighborhood. Miz Peebles is her friend and companion. She is a big political supporter of Governor Henderson. Carol Ann Barker is her niece and executor....
Emmylou Harris (goodreads)

A real person. (1947- ) An American country singer and songwriter. She has won numerous Grammy awards, and is in the Country Music Hall of Fame....
Kris Kristofferson (goodreads)

A real person. (1936-2024) An American singer, songwriter and actor. He wrote, Me and Bobby McGee. Won numerous awards.more...
John T. Smith

A lieutenant with the St. Paul police....
Tom Cruise (goodreads)

A real person. (1962- ) An American actor in many dramatic and action movies, including A Few Good Men, and the Mission: Impossible series. more...
Shelley Miller

She lives down the block from the two women who were murdered (Bucher and Peebles)....
Archie Bunker (goodreads)

A fictional character. Archie was the star of the American TV show, All in the Family which ran from 1971 to, with a spin-off, 1983. The angry, middle-aged, white, working-class man. Played by Carol OConnor.more...
Nathan Brown (invisible Prey)

He tried to pawn a box of earrings....
Dan Westchester

He runs a prisoner half-way house in Minneapolis-St. Paul. 50+ and plump....
Judith Miller (goodreads)

A real person. (1951-2023) An antiques expert from Scotland. She published many guides on antiques and their values....
Stanley Reckless (goodreads)

A real person. (1892-1955) An American impressionist artist and teacher. His original name was Stanley Zbytniewski. He did rural landscapes among others....
Jim Cole

The County Attorney in Dakota County. A Republican....
Sharon Armstrong

Lived in the first half of the 20th century. An excellent quilter. Her husband Frank abused her and their children. From Carton, Wisconsin....
Carl Frazier

An investigator with the Chippewa County Sheriffs Office in Wisconsin. They handled the Donaldson murder.more...
Landford And Margaret Booth

Claire Donaldsons relatives.more...
Jacob Toms

A single, elderly man who was an art and antique collector. A murder victim in Des Moines. Duane Child was convicted of the crime....
Susan Conoway

A state prosecutor. Lucas had attended a lecture she gave....
Kelly Mcguire

Shes Jesse Barths best friend. 17.more...
Ron Stack

An artist and, in some way, an acquaintance of Gabriella Coombs. Balding and bad-tempered....
Tutankhamen (goodreads)

A real person. Also spelled Tutankhamun. (c1341 BC to -1323 BC) A pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th dynasty. He died young after a short reign probably as the result of an accident and malaria. One of the lesser kings who is best known by the discovery of his ...
Archie Carton And Alice Schirmer

Art experts. Hes with Sothebys and shes with the Walker Museum in Minneapolis.more...
Mr. Thune

He once owned a large brewery in Milwaukee. Claire Donaldson was his daughter-in-law....
Joe Wyzinsky

A criminal attorney in the twin cities....
Jack Wentz

County Attorney for Ramsay County. Up for re-election in the near future....