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But when the killer commits a particularly brazen and atrocious crime in the present day, the pace picks up as Lucas vows to execute his quarry personally. Much of his two investigations, past and present, amount to a slog, a procedural daisy chain of information that leads to more information, much of it unreliable. It’s not until 25 years later, when a construction crew finds the two girls’ bodies, that Lucas has a chance to reopen it. When a manhunt leaves Scrape dead, Daniel closes the case over Lucas’s protests. Quentin Daniel, who’s running the Jones case, that his killer is schizophrenic panhandler Terry Scrape.

Buried prey book review series#

Meanwhile, a series of anonymous tips and circumstantial clues convince Lt. Along the way, he manages to solve the fatal stabbing of Ronald Rice more or less on the fly. For his trouble, he’s shunted off the case onto the infinitely more routine murder of gangbanger Billy Smith. When the need to follow every lead drags Lucas Davenport, the beat cop who first caught the call, into a very temporary assignment as a plainclothes homicide detective, he immediately shows the sleuthing instincts that will make him a star ( Storm Prey, 2010, etc.). There’s no proof at the time that the Jones girls are dead, only a plea from George and Gloria Jones to find them after they went missing, along with a raft of evidence that all points in one direction. You’ll be missing out if you don’t read Sandford’s latest Prey book.A macabre discovery at a demolition site sends Lucas Davenport back to 1985, and his very first homicide. He wasn’t comfortable with the “resolution” of the case when it happened, but he was just breaking out of patrol work and accepted his supervisor’s decision on the case. Now, twenty-five years later, the bodies of the Jones sisters are discovered in a plastic bag beneath the concrete-floor basement of a house being torn down in Minneapolis, and Davenport is re-examining the case. He reviews his case notes from 1985 and realizes that because of his lack of experience, the notes weren’t incredibly helpful, however, from them he was able to reinterview a couple of witnesses who still remembered the missing girls. This book featured one of his first cases–the abduction and assumed murder of two young girls. It was cool to see Davenport as a “rookie” and see how he worked his way up through the ranks to his current role as an investigator in the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. In Buried Prey, Sandford reintroduces the young and ambitious Lucas Davenport when he started on the police force. And finding Buried Prey at Half Priced Books was a deal I most definitely could not pass up! A bonus for those who don’t know, the Prey series all take place in the Twin Cities! He’s an author of which I repeatedly purchase without hesitation, ESPECIALLY if it’s a “Prey” book. I have been a big John Sandford fan since I read his first “Prey” book long ago.