Righteous Prey: A Lucas Davenport & Virgil Flowers thriller

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It is an entertaining diversion and could become a bit meta if future Virgil books are fictionalized versions of his cases with Lucas. Bestseller Sandford’s compulsively readable 12th novel featuring astute Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after 2018’s Holy Ghost) will please fair play fans. She knows five like-minded bored Bitcoin billionaires who need excitement in their lives; something like, say, killing a person who they feel needs to be murdered. It makes for a fast read, but the trade-off is not having a strong and worthy adversary for the dynamic duo to fight against.

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John Sandford is the New York Times Bestselling author behind the smash hit Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers series. And they soon have their hands full–the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals.He eschews guns, will do whatever possible to spare a life, but understands their part in police work. In 2014, John Sandford joined forces with fellow thriller author Michele Cook to pen the Singular Menace series.

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The first is a detailed examination of the life and art of John Stuart Ingle, which went on to win him the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. Where will this group strike next and given how little is known about them how can they possibly be stopped? They are interesting to some degree and the Bitcoin angle had some potential, although it was rather weakly developed throughout the book. It could be a 4star book but since I am from MN it gets raised to 5star just because Sanford is so Minnesota knowledgeable!P. Putnam's Sons and to NetGalley, for the opportunity to read and review an early copy of Righteous Prey. Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. This is how Sandford masterfully sucked me in and left me wanting to know who are the Five, who are their targets and will the good guys win? With their quirky methods, Davenport and Flowers begin making slow progress in uncovering the people behind the killings and the mastermind behind them, Vivian Zhao.

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My attention was captured instaneously from the author's blurb: “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered. Sandford is so skilled at writing thrillers that one tends to overlook his ability to create great dialogue.Otherwise it was a great read, I especially love Lucas and Virgil’s relationship, and when they had to hold hands and pretend to be gay – well that just made my heart leap. They are apparently the victims of a random robbery, though nothing of value appears to have been taken. Each new book he releases slides straight into the upper ranks of the bestseller’s charts, including, of course, his latest 2022 titles, Righteous Prey and The Investigator. The story includes the usual blend of clever wit that makes this series a page turner and always on my list to grab as soon as a new book is published.