Book 3
Buried Prey by John Sandford
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
One of these days I’m going to read ALL mystery series in order instead of whenever I can find it at the library. That said, I know Lucas Davenport quite well. This one used a plot style that doesn’t really work for me: the old cold case coming back to haunt the investigator. It opens with the discovery of the mummified bodies of two sisters then quickly flashes back 30 years to when Lucas was still in uniform. When the girls go missing, Lucas is pulled into temporary duty as a plainsclothes cop. He doesn’t think that the vagrant that all the evidence points to is guilty because there are things that don’t add up. Half the book later, the flashback wraps up just as expected, not entirely resolved. (which is why I don’t like this plot because you know going in either it wasn’t solved or worse some innocent went away for it).
Back to the present, Lucas starts up where he left off. Things get very personal very fast and the end was a tad impossible to get since you don’t get too many clues until the very end. There are killer pov chapters but they do just call him ‘the killer.’ Over all, I enjoyed it. It wasn’t stand out in any way though other than I’m a little concerned about Letty, the girl Lucas and Weather adopted (I think I missed her book) because of her constant bloodthirsty advice to Lucas. You’d think someone would send her for therapy (of course they may have and I missed those books since like I said, I haven’t read in any sense of order).
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