"Winter Prey" is John Sandford's fifth mystery in his Lucas Davenport series. Sandford agrees with his readers that this might be one of the better books in this series. It certainly kept me guessing till the end!
Davenport has been staying away from his new state of the art office hiding out at his cabin up north and it's one of the coldest winters in Wisconsin history. When a couple and their daughter are brutally murdered and their home burned to the ground, Sheriff Shelly Carr asks for Davenport's assistance. In fact, he deputizes him to make it official.
These deaths are just the tip of the iceberg and there is more than murder involved. Davenport is part of the Sheriff's local team which includes Dr. Weather Karkinnen, a local surgeon, who, as a matter of regular rotation, acts as coroner on this case. When she becomes a target, Davenport moves into her guest bedroom at night to act as a bodyguard and has someone routinely assigned to be with her at all times for protection.
Neither Davenport nor Weather have been in a relationship for some time and there is a mutual attraction that they eventually act on. However, solving the murders and preventing additional ones takes precedence.
How many more "innocents" will die before they find their murderer? pazt
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