While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top John Sandford books.
- Holy Ghost (A Virgil Flowers Novel) (2019)
- Rules of Prey (A Prey Novel) (2019)
- Winter Prey (A Prey Novel) (2009)
- Golden Prey (A Prey Novel) (2018)
- Easy Prey (Lucas Davenport) (2015)
- Twisted Prey (A Prey Novel) (2019)
- Night Prey (A Prey Novel) (2010)
- Certain Prey (A Prey Novel) (2014)
- Deep Freeze (A Virgil Flowers Novel) (2018)
- Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, No. 2) (2009)
- Buried Prey (A Prey Novel) (2012)
- Sudden Prey (A Prey Novel) (2012)
Holy Ghost (A Virgil Flowers Novel) (2019)
Wheatfield, Minnesota: a metropolis of six hundred souls and change, 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 his precocious teenage buddy come up with a scheme to put Wheatfield on the map.
Rules of Prey (A Prey Novel) (2019)
The killer was mad but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been usedSo many rules to his sick, violent games of death. But Lucas Davenport, the cop who’s out to get him, isn’t playing by the rules.
Winter Prey (A Prey Novel) (2009)
It’s the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that’s closing in on Lucas Davenport.
Golden Prey (A Prey Novel) (2018)
.The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. 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.
Easy Prey (Lucas Davenport) (2015)
In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that’s demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder.
Twisted Prey (A Prey Novel) (2019)
.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.
Night Prey (A Prey Novel) (2010)
A savage psychopath is playing cat and mouse with Lucas Davenport. But both killer and detective find themselves at odds with a female investigator who has intensely personal reasons for catching the killer herself-and fast.
Certain Prey (A Prey Novel) (2014)
Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southern—and the best hit woman in the business. She just goes about her business, collects her money, and goes home. Her latest hit sounds simple: a defense attorney wants a rival eliminated. No problem—until a witness survives. Clara usually knows how to deal with loose ends: cut them off, one by one, until they’re all gone.
Deep Freeze (A Virgil Flowers Novel) (2018)
Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt–and, as it turned out, homicidal–local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been found dead, frozen in a block of ice.
Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, No. 2) (2009)
On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago.Working the murders, Flowers becomes convinced that someone is keeping a list—with many more names on it. And when he discovers what connects them all, he’s almost sorry.
Buried Prey (A Prey Novel) (2012)
A block on the edge of the Minneapolis loop is being razed when a macabre discovery is made: two girls buried under a rotted old house. Lucas Davenport knows how long they’ve been there. In 1985, he was part of the manhunt to track down two kidnapped sisters. They were never found—until today. With the bodies discovered, Davenport has the chance to return to the crime that has haunted him for years.
Sudden Prey (A Prey Novel) (2012)
The crime spree should have ended when Lucas Davenport killed the female bank robber during the shoot-out. But it’s just beginning, because the woman’s husband isn’t about to let Lucas—or anyone he loves—escape retribution.INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
Best John Sandford Books That Will Hook You
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The Investigator
Author(s): John sandford
ID: 3258969, Publisher: a lefty Davenport novel, Year: 2022, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture
Author(s): Sandford, John
ID: 2759784, Publisher: Taylor and Francis, Year: 2013, Size: 19 Mb, Format: pdf
The Fool's Run
Author(s): John Sandford
ID: 815284, Publisher: Berkley Books, Year: 2011, Size: 316 Kb, Format: epub
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