Lucas knows only a few things about them. Over the course of the three books prior to the third, Lieutenant was forced to work against two single-minded, bizarre, and damnable serial killers, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg so far as murder investigations go.Īt present, he has not just a single killer on the loose causing trouble and adding bodies to the local morgue, but two of them. Brimming with the humorous writing, the smooth storytelling, and the palpable tension.įollowing the Sandford’s Lucas Davenport series in order, we come to Eyes of Prey. However, when Lucas Davenport gets involved, the prowler chooses to get a bit more personal with the Lieutenant and begins targeting his current flame. Sandford’s Prey novels are our favorites for a reason. The modus operandi is the same one, so it’s agreed that the perpetrator is but a single person. A welfare worker and a slumlord have been brutally murderer in Minneapolis, a political star was killed in Manhattan, and a judge from Oklahoma City was abducted. In the second entry of the Prey series by Sandford, book titled Shadow Prey, Lieutenant Lucas Davenport is searching for his strangest and oddest case, yet. No surprise that this is one of the best-selling John Sandford books.

He is just the man for the job and without a doubt a match for the crazed murderer that stalks the streets. That is why Lieutenant Lucas Davenport was called in. He likes to irk the police officers as elaborate and befuddling obstacles and puzzles are thrown their way. The murderer, sometimes called the Maddog murderer, seems to do it out of pure pleasure and need for satisfaction. The Twin Cities, at the moment, are under the oppression of a certain killer who is both completely mad, yet undeniably very smart and intelligent. It is here that we first meet our titular character Lucas Davenport, the most recognizable of Sandford’s Prey series characters. One of the most popular John Sandford books is without a doubt the series first, namely Rules of Prey. Several of Sandford’s Prey books in order– our favorite sequence for Sandford’s Prey series in reading order goes like this: It is his magnum opus, if you will, and all thirty-one books in the series are wonderous entries and worthy, by themselves, of being on our list of the best books by John Sandford. Sandford’s Lucas Davenport series is without a doubt the series by which the famed author is most known for. Now, with all of that duly noted, let’s take a peek at what the best John Sandford books are. In Minneapolis, he began writing for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press and two years later had already become a daily columnist. For a number of years, Sanford worked for The Miami Herald, before moving to Minneapolis in 1978.

Dead Watch by John Sandford