Phantom Prey

A wealthy widow returns to her large home in an exclusive Minneapolis suburb to find blood everywhere, no body and her student daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them- Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this.

With no sign of the widow's daughter, dead or alive, a second Goth is found slashed to death but it's only when the third Goth turns up dead that Lucas Davenport gets involved.

But the police can't find the girl, alive or dead, and the widow truly panics. There's someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, so she implores Weather to get her husband directly involved. Lucas is reluctant at first but soon jumps on the case.

But the clues don't seem to add up, Then there's the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing. Who is she, where does she come from and, more importantly, where does she vanish to? Davenport has the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on- something very, very bad, indeed.

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist John Sandford returns with another engrossing thriller filled with his brilliant trademark suspense.

John Sandford was born John Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He was in the U.S Army from 1966-1968, worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968-1970, and went back to the University of Iowa from 1970-1978, and then a reporter from the St.Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978-1990; in 1980 he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Pulitzer in 1986 for a series of stories about a mid-western farm crisis. He is now the author of 18 Prey novels and the stand-alone thriller Dead Watch. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. He is also the principle financial backer of a major archaeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel.

Phantom Prey
Simon and Schuster
Author: John Sandford
ISBN: 9781847371706
Price: $29.95