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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 manoeuvres 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 Camp (P)2025 Penguin Random House
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I was really enjoying the book but was really disappointed by the abrupt ending which spoiled the whole experience for me

Great story as usual

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I love, love, love this series. This one, (number 35), is nice in that it brings in Jenkins and Shrake, characters from earlier books...the way John Sandford writes them always gives me a good laugh.
Interesting and absorbing as ever, the plot lines are just brilliant and the main characters seem as familiar to me as family members. (the ones I like).
I confess I still really miss Richard Ferrone narrating. Considering I've listened to him for hours and hours, his voice will always be Lucas and he would always get just the right amount of disdain, annoyance and humour that gave the characters depth. That said, Robert Petkoff isn't terrible by a long chalk and he's done a decent job of the last few books.

Thank you John Sandford, for all your hard, brilliant work,

This author ALWAYS writes a great story.

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It’s always good to spend time in the company of Flowers and Davenport and this is no exception. The story’s good, albeit the involvement of true-crime podcasters feels a bit bandwagon-jumpy. The progress of the story is ok, but it’s inconsistent and there are fairly chunky sized holes in the plot. The biggest issue, as others have said, is the ending which appears out of the blue as if someone lost the last chapter of the manuscript. There doesn’t seem to be enough left for a part 2 and nothing at the end of this book sets up a follow-up. It’s all just a little odd.

Abrupt ending spoils decent Flowers/Davenport book

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The failure to provide a decent ending and too much focus on the true crime people.

the main characters

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So disappointed. Read all the Prey novels and enjoyed every one but this. The lack of an ending makes it just a puzzle with no solution. Are we meant to vote on it? Was it done so that readers are forced to buy the next book? Always thought John Sandfird played fair with his readers. This reader will not be back.

Where is the ending

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