Author: johnsandford

A “top-notch thriller” (Booklist) and New York Times bestseller: When over a dozen bodies are discovered in the cistern of a small town, Lucas Davenport teams up with local police to find a twisted killer. “As always, Sandford has tricks to play to confound readers” (Publishers Weekly).

Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford.The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures . . . of the children of other influential Washington … influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups. It’s obviously alarming–is there an…

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back–and his mouth–as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford’s “madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries” (New York Times Book Review).At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but … that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . .…

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, deputy US Marshal Lucas Davenport is on the hunt for petty criminal Clayton Deese — who turns out to be a diabolical serial killer. “Wildly entertaining… Clever plotting, mordant humor, and smart-ass dialogue” (Booklist).

A “wickedly enjoyable” read (Publishers Weekly) from a #1 New York Times bestselling author: When an apparition of the Virgin Mary appears in a small Minnesota town, many think it’s a miracle — but the excitement turns sour after a dead body surfaces, too. Can Virgil Flowers solve this strange mystery? “Sublime” (Booklist).

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author praised as one of “the great summer-read novelists of all time” (Stephen King): Lucas Davenport must face off against an dangerous enemy from his past who has been elected to the US Senate. “A deadly cat-and-mouse game that will keep the reader turning the pages up to the exciting climax” (Publishers Weekly).

Class reunions: a time for memories—good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly—in this New York Times bestselling thriller from John Sandford. Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt—and as it turned out, homicidal—local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been … alarming news: A woman’s been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There’s a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter…

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucas Davenport’s first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal … saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they…

Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers’ case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are “pure reading pleasure” (Booklist).  The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they’ve been stolen for their … sick that they’ve been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are…

The first five novels in #1 New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford’s Prey series, featuring Minneapolis homicide investigator Lucas Davenport.RULES OF PREYHe left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used…So many rules to his sick, violent games of … used…So many rules to his sick, violent games of death. But Lucas Davenport isn’t playing by the rules.SHADOW PREY Three victime killed by the same weapon—a Native American ceremonial knife—and a trail of blood that leads Lucas Davenport to an embodiment of primal…