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Lethal Prey

A Prey Novel, Book 35

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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 maneuvers 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 Sandford (P)2025 Penguin Audio
Crime Thrillers Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Detective

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One of New York Post's 30 Must-Read New Thrillers

"A superlative police procedural paired with an outrageous serial-killer saga, enlivened by an array of quirky characters."—Wall Street Journal

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not a John Sandford ending

I feel like the final chapter is missing, I've read/listened to all of John Sandford's books, I look forward to them, one thing I love is they can all stand alone or if, like me, you can follow the series & lives of Lucas, Virgil & now Letty but what happened here? where's the resolution??

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Always enjoy Lucas & That F’n Flowers…

BUT, for the 1st time, I was not a fan of the ending on this one.

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No ending

What to heck. Was the story rushed? It needed to have some sort of resolution.

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What was that ending?

Enjoyed the story, but the non-ending was frustrating. I just don’t understand. I love this series. Don’t remember ever being disappointed with an ending like this one.

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I Call BS

Oh H… naw…
Been there done that!
The storyline is familiar… the outcome is familiar… he already wrote this story!!! Maybe about 7 years ago? …the names are different though .… JS! It even had the same ending. You are better than that. One note: We do love having Lucas and Virgil working together again. Thank Jesus it was without Letty. Thanks to JS for all the LD years. It was outstanding- Until it wasn’t..

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Nice fast pace.

Was very hard to put down. I enjoy that he brings in all the ancillary characters that we know and love. Having Lucas and Flowers together just steps up antics. Loved it!

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Love 99% of it

I love the narrator - he really makes the story interesting - and quite funny, especially with the end of chapter zingers. LOL. I know that's the author's work, but the narrator makes it fun. Overall, the story was great and I love the interaction between Davenport and Virgil. They are a great team. The only thing I hated was the end. Come on! I thought a great ending would be for Lara to kill her but .... oh well. :)

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A good Davenport-Flowers story

I read what the others said about the narrator and felt sometimes he had the correct inflection for the character and the story. Early on, I thought I was listening to a high school student who didn’t get the nuances of the character and story at all. Yes, other readers had been much more memorable and would have made this typical Davenport-Flowers tale a lot better.

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what the heck?

All I'm going to say is the ending was abrupt and not a good ending at all!

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John is getting tired

This just wasn't up to snuff from the abrupt and unresolved ending to the all too easy resolution of the story. It's a Davenport book, you'll enjoy it, but it's sadly a long way from the earlier works. . .

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