- Private investigators, Serial murders, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Fiction
Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- John Sandford
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Berkley Books, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399157622
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- Private investigators
- Serial murders
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
- Fiction
- Lucas Davenport (Fictitious character)
- Serial murder investigation
- New York Times bestseller
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Serial murders, fiction
- Minneapolis (minn.), fiction
- Davenport, lucas (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
A Pulitzer-winning American journalist, John Roswell Camp was asked to write the _Prey_ series of novels under the pseudonym John Sandford. With the popularity of that series, he continued to use the same pseudonym for subsequent novels, including even the sequels to Camp's earlier Kidd novels.
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