Review: Easy Prey

Deputy Chief of Police Lucas Davenport is back for another exciting excursion into the world of murder. He is called to a house to find a famous model strangled to death, with drugs in her body and evidence that she had just made love to a woman. One of Lucas' men is under suspicion, but the case can only get more complicated, especially when another body is discovered in a cupboard.

Lucas knows that it is going to be a difficult case, but the waters get even more muddied when an ex-lover comes back into his life, now married, but with some major problems of her own.

Again, John Sandford has written an interesting thriller. I do not feel that there is a great deal to say about it. If you like Lucas Davenport, you will like this. Just when you think that Sandford has reached the point that he cannot develop Davenport anymore, he throws in a surprise and his character just continues to grow.

The one thing I was not keen on was the identity of the killer. It is very difficult to talk about this at all without going into spoilers, but I found it very difficult to work out the killer's identity from what Sandford gave in the novel. He does, however, include lots of false clues and trails all over the place to keep you guessing.

It seems as though Davenport's luck with woman may well be changing as well. With three of them involved with him in some way or another in this novel and a very interesting ending with more than one possibility, I feel that Sandford's next Davenport novel could be very good. Overall, this conforms to the high standards of the other Sandford novels and deserves to do just as well as previous ones have done. I look forward to Sandford's next work, which I am sure will be a Davenport novel. There seems to be a lot of life left in him yet.

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Book Review: Easy Prey