Lethal Prey

A Prey Novel, Book 35

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

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.

Critic reviews

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

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??

what the heck?

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

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.

Always enjoy Lucas & That F’n Flowers…

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

No ending

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