Invisible Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries) | John Sandford

Invisible Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries) | John Sandford | 1st time Sandford reader - I enjoyed it!

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Invisible Prey (Lu...

	Invisible Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries) John Sandford Putnam Adult, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 94 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items stolen. It is clearly the random work of someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as Davenport looks more closely, he begins to wonder whether the items are actually so small and the victims so random-if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually, a pattern begins to emerge, and it leads him to . . . certainly nothing he ever expected. Which is too bad, because the killers-and, yes, there is more than one of them-the killers are expecting him. Brilliantly suspenseful, filled with rich characterization and exciting drama, Invisible Prey is further proof that Sandford is in a class of his own.

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Invisible Prey review

Tight plot, good writing and satisfactory conclusion. I vote it the best of the "PREY" novels to date.

1st time Sandford reader - I enjoyed it!

This is the 1st Sandford book I have read - I enjoyed it from cover to cover!

Excellent as always

I've been reading Sandford's Prey books for the last few years. This one was as good as the others have been. Lucas Davenport delivers as always. Hopefully at some point we might get a movie, but until then at least there is no sign of an end to the series.

Sanford and Davenport are back!

The previous novel in the series, Broken Prey, was so bad that it led me to question whether John Sanford wrote it and conclude that with Broken Prey the prey series was, in fact, broken!

Invisible Prey started out tentatively for me, but after only 10% of the way into it I realized that Sanford had hit his stride again. ALL the elements that make a prey novel a prey novel are back. We get to meet the "bad guys" early on (with a nice twist as the identities of "Big" and "Little" are revealed). There's a constant cat-and-mouse game between Davenport and the baddies. Davenport's circle of family and friends are more than cardboard cutouts. And, there's a bunch of minor characters to care about.

Is this the strongest of the Prey series? I don't know. What I do know is that Invisible Prey is worthy of being part of the series. Enjoy!

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The couple that slays together, stays together

In a series that has gone on now for seventeen books, it is not surprising if some elements of the Prey novels are getting a little tired. While these are still okay books, they are not nearly as compelling as the early books were. To a large extent, this is due to the evolution of Lucas Davenport from edgy cop happy to womanize and break whatever rules are necessary, to a tamer family man who may bend the rules occasionally but is a little less interesting.

Invisible Prey is a perfect example, in which for a long time, Davenport has little interest in a set of murders outside of that required by his job. After all, at this point, he is independently wealthy (so he doesn't need the work) and his family life is happily stable, so there is little to upset his proverbial apple cart. Eventually, he will be more motivated, but the first part of the book just has him going through the motions.

The plot focuses on a husband-and-wife pair of burglar/killers who commit a seemingly perfect crime. It is, in fact, their attempts to cover up the crime that will threaten to undo them, not the crime itself. In killing a wealthy old lady and her maid for some antiques (they are antique dealers), they are hardly even on Davenport's radar, as he is more interested in an underaged sex scandal involving a state politician. The cover-up, however, draws Davenport in, as he starts to realize that there may be even more murders linked to this home invasion.

As is typically the case in a Prey novel, Sandford is less interested in plot twists (we know who the killers are early on) than in the procedure of hunting down the killers, and in the characters of the killers themselves. And as villains, the husband-and-wife are in the middle tier of Sandford villains, not great, not awful. I'm sure long-time fans of Sandford will be pleased with this book (and despite my griping, this book is good enough to merit a low four stars), but it is not the best introduction to his work.

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