John Sandford Libri

Lucas Davenport's boss is about to lose her job as chief of police, his fiancée is distracted with wedding plans, and his house-remodeling project is at a standstill. So when the FBI and DEA draft the Minneapolis cop to head off hit woman Clara Rinker's bloody murder spree, he's glad to oblige. The lady killer and the killer lady have tangled before in Sandford's Prey series, and their personal history seasons this fast-paced story of mayhem, murder, and revenge. After Rinker barely survives an assassination attempt that destroys her unborn baby and kills her lover, the son of a Mexican drug lord, she sets out to destroy the mobsters who ordered the hit, a journey that brings her into Davenport's sights again and also puts him back in action alongside a woman agent with whom he was once involved. But it's the grudging respect and even affection Sandford hints at between Rinker and Lucas that takes this crisp, confident thriller beyond the limitations of the genre and makes the characters flesh-and-blood human beings. A standout in a terrific series! --Jane Adams

Due cadaveri fatti a pezzi vengono trovati a pochi giorni di distanza nei dintorni di Minneapolis. L'ambiziosissima Rose Marie Roux, nuovo capo della polizia, non esita a "scaricare" il caso nelle mani del suo vice, l'infallibile Lucas Davenport. Davenport si mette sulle tracce del serial killer, ostacolato da molti fatti e persone, non ultima una giovane donna a cui rimane pochissimo tempo per fermare l'assassino.

Timida ma tosta, cresciuta in una fattoria del Wisconsin, Anna gestisce il turno di notte di una troupe televisiva e gira per le strade di Los Angeles con la sua piccola banda armata di videocamere alla ricerca di notizie: incidenti, furti, assassini, manifestazioni. È una vita esilarante... finché due morti cruenti arrivano a sconvolgere il loro mondo. Il primo caso è un suicidio. Quinto piano di un albergo, pantaloni scuri e camicia bianca, l'uomo viene ripreso prima lì, in bilico sul cornicione, e poi in picchiata verso le telecamere. Il secondo è uno dei cameraman di Anna. Sconvolto dal suicidio a cui ha assistito, lascia la scena prima del solito. Il suo cadavere riappare dopo alcune ore sulla spiaggia con una pallottola piantata in testa. Quando Anna, non convinta dei sospetti della polizia, inizia ad indagare, un vortice di fantasmi del passato riemerge nella sua testa, finché tutto il suo mondo diventa oscuro e pericoloso. Proprio come la notte.

Una serie di omicidi irrisolti che ricalcano tristemente un medesimo schema sta facendo impazzire la polizia di Minneapolis, bloccata in una sorta di vicolo cieco. Il killer sembra prediligere belle ragazze, bionde, e di fuori città. E tutte appartenenti ad ambiti lavorativi che gravitano attorno al mondo dell'arte e della grafica pubblicitaria. Una di esse è l'unica nipote dell'agente Marshall, affranto collega e amico del detective Lucas Davenport, impegnato nelle indagini. Improvvisamente, la macabra scoperta di un cimitero che cela i resti delle sfortunate vittime dà impulso all'inchiesta e il cerchio si stringe attorno a un sospetto: l'elegante ed enigmatico professore di storia dell'arte James Qatar. Qual è il suo ambiguo rapporto con la disinibita Ellen Barstad? Che cosa nasconde così gelosamente nel suo computer? Come mai intrattiene rapporti con uno squinternato ricettattore? In una successione di colpi di scena, il serial killer, ormai braccato, comincia a commettere passi falsi ma non si trattiene dal lanciare un'estrema, delirante sfida...

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times- bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.

Exploring the infamous Roswell incident through an extraterrestrial perspective, this book offers a unique narrative that blends science fiction with historical events. It delves into the implications of alien contact, societal reactions, and the mysteries surrounding the 1947 crash. By presenting the story from an alien's viewpoint, it challenges readers to reconsider their assumptions about life beyond Earth and the impact of such encounters on humanity. The book combines humor, intrigue, and thought-provoking themes about existence and understanding.

Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in this nail-biting #1 New York Times-bestseller from John Sandford. Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial killer who has been operating for years without notice. His quarry is ruthless, and--as Davenport will come to find--full of surprises . . .

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford."We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as "The Five," shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored...and very rich. They target the worst of society--rapists, murderers, and thieves--and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they've killed, donating untraceable bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become the most popular figures on social media, a modern-day Batman...though their motives may not be entirely pure.After a woman is murdered in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the Five are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.

Having spent the past two years in hiding following a daring and successful heist, a big -time robber is back in Minneapolis, having spotted the opportunity for an even greater steal. It's a couple of weeks before the big Republican party convention: thousands of people spending cash, which is flowing into a relatively inadequate Brinks warehouse, protected by only three or four armed guards. The robber's plan is to distract the cops by manipulating and alerting them to a possible assassination attempt. Lucas Davenport meanwhile has problems of his own, targeted by a psychopathic pimp, who blames Davenport for the fact he's in a wheelchair. Only it's not Davenport he's going after; it's his innocent daughter, Letty.

Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now more powerful than ever as a U.S. senator, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Prey series Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before. A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run successfully for the U.S. Senate, where Lucas had predicted she’d fit right in. He was also convinced that she’d been responsible for three murders, though he’d never been able to prove it. Once a psychopath had gotten that kind of rush, though, he or she often needed another fix, so he figured he might be seeing her again. He was right. A federal marshal now, with a very wide scope of investigation, he’s heard rumors that Grant has found her seat on the Senate intelligence committee, and the contacts she’s made from it, to be very…useful. Pinning those rumors down was likely to be just as difficult as before, and considerably more dangerous. But they had unfinished business, he and Grant. One way or the other, he was going to see it through to the end.