In 1985, someone kidnapped and murdered two young girls. A
redevelopment project employee discovers their bodies under
an old house as he hauls away the concrete foundation. Lucas
Davenport, a young cop in the Minneapolis Police Department
when the girls were kidnapped, had been following some
promising leads, but office politics, the thrill of
promotion, and new crimes kept him from following up on his
hunch.
Today, Lucas works for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension. Married with children, well established in
his career and respected among his peers, Lucas cannot help
but feel he let the two girls down all those years ago. He
is determined to solve the crime by investigating the person
he felt did the crime. He enlists the help of fellow
officers who were on the force at the time and a few
officers he has had a close relationship with, and sets into
motion a string of events that lead to more death until the
ultimate showdown with the killer.
His wife and fellow officers see Lucas's focus on the
investigation as an obsession. They fear that he will kill
the suspect when he gets his hands on him. Lucas is like a
hound dog on a hot trail and the killer is sweating as time
starts to run out for his life of crime.
BURIED PREY is a fascinating story. John Sandford has
developed intricate characters that interact well with each
other so the story moves at clip speed. Lucas methodically
investigates a twenty-five year old crime by reconnecting
with the people he interviewed at the time of the
kidnapping. Because of the well-developed character that
John Sandford developed, Lucas's actions are not only
plausible but also exciting to read as the tightly woven
plot moves to a most satisfying culmination. I thoroughly
enjoyed BURIED PREY and hope that you will enjoy it as well.
A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for
Minneapolis — the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic.
It looks like they’ve been there a long time. Lucas
Davenport knows exactly how long.
In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for
recklessness, and the girls’ disappearance was a big deal.
His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he
never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to
investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming
increasingly clear: It wasn’t just the bodies that were
buried. It was the truth.
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