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1) Buried prey
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Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 12
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English
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"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate...and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among...
3) Twisted prey
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Federal marshal Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis in U.S. senator Taryn Grant, a rich psychopath who he has resolved to bring to justice for her role in three murders that he cannot prove.
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"Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there's no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly...
5) Holy ghost
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 11
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English
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Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would -- until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those...
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 3
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English
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While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many directions -- then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly...
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The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport -- a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare -- is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary...
8) Golden prey
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Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he 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 lead him. And where they've led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five...
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 1
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English
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Virgil Flowers is sent to the small town of Bluestem to investigate the murders of a doctor and his wife and a man burned to death in his home, unaware that he is tracking a murderer who may be targeting Virgil as his next victim.
10) Neon prey
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2019.
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It was a relatively minor criminal matter, all things considered, but enough that the U.S. Marshals obtained a warrant to enter the home. They didn't expect to unearth trophies from a score of killings. Now Davenport is on the trail of a serial murderer, one who was able to operate for years without notice or suspicion. But there's even more to this killer than meets the eye.
11) Heat lightning
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 2
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English
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Upon the discovery of the second body, shot and left near a veterans' memorial with a lemon stuck in it's mouth, Virgil Flowers works to uncover who he believes to be a serial killer, while also trying to detect any possible link to the bodies.
12) Gathering prey
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They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes -- they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She's hiding...
13) Righteous prey
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When a mysterious vigilante group known only as "The Five" starts targeting the very worst of society, using their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those they've killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to investigate, and destroy, this virtually untraceable group.
14) Ocean prey
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"An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver...a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen...
15) Deadline
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 8
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English
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"In southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to a close. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. 'Issues' is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether a local reporter should die. And the vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is doing a favor for a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning...
16) Dead watch
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Early morning in Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former US Senator, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know, but she thinks she knows who's involved, and why. And that she's next. Chief investigator and an army intelligence veteran, Jake Winter knows how to move quickly and decisively, but he's never faced a problem like this. The disappearances are bad, but when a blackened body shows up barb wired to...
17) Stolen prey
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When the brutal killing of a family in a small Minnesota town reveals unsettling similarities to drug-retribution crimes, baffled police officer Lucas Davenport is shocked by findings that lead him into the darkest case of his career.
18) Field of Prey
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Lucas Davenport is called in when young lovers pick an abandoned farmyard for a secret rendezvous -- and discover a grisly cache of bodies. Evidence reveals that a killer has been selecting victims each and every summer for well over a decade, and now it up to Davenport to put an end to this macabre ritual.
19) Secret prey
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Detective Lucas Davenport, assigned to investigate the shooting of a company chairman who died while hunting with four executives, senses that the case is going to be much more complicated than it appears on the surface.
20) Naked prey
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Lucas Davenport's old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooting job for the cases that are too complicated for others to handle -- cases like when two people, a white woman and a black man, are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota.
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