Night Prey | John Sandford | A night with Sandford's "Prey" is a night well spent.

Night Prey | John Sandford | Compelling reading

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Night Prey

	Night Prey John Sandford Berkley, 1995 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A night with Sandford's "Prey" is a night well spent.

John Sandford's "Prey" series is a delight. I've read four so far and each has been an adventure.

Lucas Davenport is a Minnesota cop, with the City of Minneapolis in early "Prey" novels, the State of Minnesota in later ones.

The plot is almost beside the point. A corpse is discovered and so on. Sandford's characters are richly detailed and believable. His plots are inventive and not so far out that you have to swallow credulity to keep moving.

Fun reads. And what higher compliment can I pay?

Jerry

Compelling reading

Lucas Davenport is back with the Minneapolis police force as Deputy Chief after a 2 year break. A State Investigator, Meagan Connell, is brought in to help solve the brutal attacks on women.Her demeanour as a tough, no-holds barred female cop, disguises the fact that she is dying of cancer and is determined to solve the case before she dies.A series of successful attacks and murders has given the perpetrator a hunger for more, so he fixates on an attractive and successful business woman and stalks and spies on her repeatedly.This is a hair raising story which will grip the reader to the end as well as giving a frightening look into the twisted and criminal mind of a sadistic rapist and murderer.

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Introducing a new criminal profile: the stalker

This will be another short and sweet Prey review since Sandford has clearly created a formula for success in his books. By this time, if you are reading "Night Prey" you have probably read all the previous books building up to this one so you understand Davenport and all the issues surrounding him.

This book has a significantly less amount of character development than the previous books. We don't see much growth (positive or negative) in any of the characters; except, the stalker.

The best thing about this book is that the criminal is a stalker, not just a serial killer. He is a stalker who becomes obsessed with a woman and is therefore "forced" to kill average women to appease his desires. It is such a refreshing change of pace to read about the drives and ambitions of this stalker as opposed to a crazed sociopath killer like in previous Prey books. The stalker is also a cat-burgular, which I would've liked to read more about. I would've liked to read more robberies and watched him steal stuff like the "master-theif" he is.

I read this book in one day, and it was a very enjoyable day. It starts off a little slow, but after a few chapters it gets going. It is another race against time as the media is about to explode. It may be too late this time, though....

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Hard to put down...

This book is written with third-person narration, so readers are able to watch the events unfold from the perspectives of Lucas and the killer. Of course, this means that we know who the killer is, so there's no mystery there. There is, however, a great deal of suspense in the investigation. As with most other Prey books, the dialogue is fantastic! The suspense is well written and there's a constant sense of impending doom.

Another good Prey-novel

This Prey-novel, Night Prey, is not the best I have read. But it is not a bad book, not at all. Lucas Davenport is back on the force, mostly working behind the scenes. In Night Prey he is on a hunt for a serial killer who preys on lonely women with average looks, women who nobody'll notice. The killer falls in love with a business woman, and starts stalking her. She is unaware of him, and it is not until the last part of the book she discovers what's going on, and then it is almost too late. Davenport also has to deal with a dying state-police woman, who has one goal in her life, before she dies: to catch this serial killer. The character-descriptions are not as well developed in this book as they have been in other John Sandford novels, but nevertheless, Night Prey is a fast read and it will keep you entertained while reading. It is not nail-biting exciting though, something I missed with this one.

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