Davenport Settles an Old Score in Twisted Prey

John Sandford's Prey series has been thrilling fans for nearly 30 years. There seems no limit to Sandford's ability keep breath and blood flowing into his iconic series and stalwart character Lucas Davenport.

We've all read long-running series that seem to go a bit flat over the years. As good as the early books were, the author just seems to lose momentum one the series becomes a bit long in the tooth. Not so with Sandford and the Prey series. These crime fiction novels are consistently brilliant, and the series'twenty-eighth installment, Twisted Prey is no exception.

So, what is it about Sandford's books that so whets the appetite of crime fiction fans? First of all, it’s that every crime chronicled in these novels yields something new — whether it's the victims, the crimes themselves, the motives — profit, jealousy, love, politics, pathology, revenge, you name it., or the killers. There even seems something new to discover about Davenport the leading character with each iteration. These are the things I think that has kept this series fresh and thrilling book after book.

In Twisted Prey, Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator. Long-time Davenport fans will recall that Lucas paths with her in a previous book. The antagonist is a rich psychopath, Taryn Grant who had made a successful U.S. Senate run. In the earlier meeting between them, Davenport was convinced that Grant had been responsible for three murders, though he'd never been able to prove it. Knowing that once a psychopath had gotten that kind of rush, Lucas knew he or she would eventually need another fix, so he figured he might be seeing Grant again.

Davenport was right. Now a federal marshal with a very wide scope of jurisdiction, and with Grant a member of the powerful Senate intelligence committee up to some nefarious activity, the time is right for Lucas to take care of some unfinished business from the past.

Characterization is excellent throughout, a hallmark of Sandford's writing. The pace and plot are expertly choreographed to build suspense to the final confrontation. This is a novel that definitely deserves to be at the top of every crime fiction fan's summer reading list.

As one of the top authors in the business, Sandford's Twisted Prey is available in every conceivable format — electronic book, hardcover, paperback, and audio-book, wherever books are sold. Don't miss Twisted Prey.