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Broken prey

John Sandford

20051 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2005
first published
  • 2005G.P. Putnam's Sons · 390 pages · ENGISBN 9780786564613
  • 2005G.P. Putnam's Sons · 390 pages · ENGISBN 9780399152726
  • 2005Thorndike · 564 pages · ENGISBN 9780786273775
  • 2006Pocket · 390 pages · ENGISBN 9780743484176
  • 2006Penguin Audio · 1 pages · ENGISBN 9780143058861
  • 2006Penguin Audio · 1 pages · ENGISBN 9780143058854
  • 2005Penguin Audio · 1 pages · ENGISBN 9780143057581
  • 2005Penguin Audio · 11 pages · ENGISBN 9780143057598

The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair. The second body is found three weeks later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display--except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two victims, nothing to indicate that the killings end here. "This guy "Lucas said. He took a deep breath, let it out as a sigh. "This guy is going to bust our chops." And soon he is going to do far, far worse than that

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

When and where

ThemesJustice
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