If you like suspense and drama this is a book you wouldn't want to miss.Murder In the Midst of Mergers and Acquistions A bank¹s chairman of the board is killed while on a hunting trip with business associates. While initial hopes are for an accident, it¹s not. The banker has been murdered and has too many enemies to count. Just before his death, the banker was planning a merger of his bank with another. The move was extremely controversial and he only added to his list of enemies. As we meet the cast of characters it¹s easy to begin suspecting each one. They all seemed to have something to gain. Deputy Chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, Lucas Davenport is on the case. Davenport leads us from one suspect to another. Yet, there seems to be lots of suspicion to spread around. Then the suspects start being killed. The story moves into a new range of tense excitement. A surprising ending to a very well developed story! Keeps you going from start to finish.
I don't think this is necessarily "by far the best Prey" (AP), for the previous two grabbed me faster and deeper initially, and the endless active snow of Winter Prey still earlier keeps popping back into mind. This story is not the usual heart-pounding chase around Minneapolis, if that is what you seek, but instead evokes new aspects and psychological facets of several familiar team characters: depression, laughter, injury, love. Sandford constructs psychologically coherent characters and plot development, including progressively unhinged villains, while retaining faith in goodness and cops. As always, some events and dialogue mean more if you've read the previous novels. (The peek-thru covers on recent novels are either misaligned or pointless, but cannot detract from the excellence within.)
This crime thriller sees the reader again with Lucas Davenport trying to solve a murder of an extremely wealthy businessman - there are a number of possible suspects and one by one they get eliminated during the course of the book. Halfway through the book the reader finds out who the killer is, but it still takes Lucas a while to get there.
I enjoyed this book, but it certainly didn't 'wow' me like Mind Prey as I felt that the last half of the book really didn't tell us anything new, it just made us follow Lucas' trail to the killer. I read this book in a few hours & I recommend it if you are looking for time to kill.
I don't think that this is one of Sandford's best, but it is still entertaining.
