John Sandford

Lucas Davenport investigates a series of bodies found in an isolated Minnesota field — a killer who has been operating undetected for years in small-town America.

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers investigate a drug smuggling operation off the Florida coast that is leaving federal agents dead — a crossover entry between Sandford's two major series.

Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport hunts a serial killer who is following his own macabre rules — a game of cat and mouse that introduces one of crime fiction's most enduring protagonists.

A brilliant, obsessive madman abducts a prominent psychiatrist and her two daughters, holding them captive while he plays a deadly game of wits with the police. Lucas Davenport faces a kidnapper smarter than anyone he has hunted — a man who knows more about the human mind, and how to break it, than Davenport himself.

A killer is torturing and murdering victims with terrible precision, and the clues suggest he is enacting the fantasies of three of the most notorious serial killers ever locked away in a Minnesota security hospital. To catch him, Lucas Davenport must consult the very monsters whose dreams the killer is making real.

When two small skeletons are unearthed beneath a demolished Minneapolis house, the bones reopen a case that has haunted Lucas Davenport since he was a young patrol cop — the disappearance of two girls he could never forget. Now, decades later, he gets a second chance to catch a killer he was sure got away.

A cold, brilliant professional killer takes a job for an obsessed lawyer who wants a rival dead — and when the hit spirals into a string of bodies, Lucas Davenport finds himself matched against one of the most formidable assassins he has ever faced. Clara Rinker kills without passion and without mistakes, and she does not intend to be caught.

A brilliant, drug-addled pathologist and a charming, sociopathic actor strike a murderous bargain. As bodies turn up with their eyes destroyed, Lucas Davenport — himself sunk in a deep depression — must climb out of his own darkness to outthink a pair of killers as theatrical as they are deadly.

Professional assassin Clara Rinker has retired to a quiet life in Mexico — until a hit meant for her kills her lover instead. Bent on vengeance against the people who tried to kill her, she returns to the United States on a one-woman war, and the FBI recruits Lucas Davenport, the one cop who truly understands her, to stop her.

In the frozen north woods of Wisconsin, a family is butchered and their house burned. Lucas Davenport, living in self-imposed exile at his cabin, is pulled into the hunt for a killer known as the Iceman — a predator who knows the snowbound country far better than the law does, and who will kill again to protect his secret.

When Letty, Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, gets a desperate call from a young drifter she once helped, Lucas is drawn into the hunt for a roving cult led by a charismatic monster called Pilate — a band of killers preying on the 'travelers' who drift along the margins of America.

Now a U.S. Marshal with a roving national brief, Lucas Davenport takes on his first big case: hunting a vicious robber who stole millions from a drug cartel and left a trail of bodies. But Lucas isn't the only one chasing the money — the cartel has sent two of its most ruthless killers to find the thief first.

What begins as a routine hunt for a bail-jumping debt collector turns horrifying when Lucas Davenport discovers the fugitive is a murderer — and worse, a cannibal who has buried his victims across the desert. The chase runs from Louisiana to Las Vegas to Los Angeles, with marshals Bob and Rae at Lucas's side.

A meticulous predator stalks the Twin Cities, killing women and keeping grisly trophies, his crimes spanning years without ever drawing notice. Lucas Davenport joins forces with a fierce, terminally ill investigator determined to catch the killer before her own time runs out — a hunt that becomes as personal as it is urgent.

A group of wealthy tech vigilantes calling themselves 'the Five' begins murdering people they deem deserving of death — and announcing each killing online with self-righteous manifestos. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to stop a band of killers who believe they are doing the world a favor.

The killer Lucas Davenport thought he had stopped has resurfaced in New York City, leaving a trail of bodies in the urban shadows. Davenport travels east to help hunt him down — and is drawn into a second, separate investigation into a cabal of rogue cops who have decided to mete out their own brand of justice.

A pre-dawn pharmacy robbery turns deadly, and the only witness who can identify the killers is Lucas Davenport's wife, Weather. As the robbers move to silence her before she can testify, Davenport finds himself in the most personal fight of his career — protecting the woman he loves from men with everything to lose.

When a bank robber is gunned down in a police operation, her ruthless husband swears revenge — not just on the cops who killed her, but on their families. As the killings begin, Lucas Davenport realizes the vendetta is being aided from inside the system, and that everyone he loves may be a target.

A brilliant infectious-disease doctor has vanished — along with enough engineered pathogen to start a global pandemic. Convinced that humanity is a disease the planet must be cured of, he intends to release it. Lucas Davenport and his daughter Letty race across continents to find him before he can carry out a plan to kill millions.

Senator Taryn Grant — the sociopath Lucas Davenport tangled with years ago — is now in the Senate, and just as dangerous. When she tries to murder a colleague who got in her way, Lucas, now a U.S. Marshal, sets out to stop her, knowing she has the money, the power, and the private muscle to make a marshal disappear.

As the Republican National Convention descends on St. Paul, a crew of professional thieves plans to rob the millions in cash flowing through the political machine. But a separate, more personal danger is closing in: a vicious criminal with a grudge has set his sights on Letty, Lucas Davenport's teenage daughter.

A mild-mannered art-history professor leads a secret life as a predator, photographing and murdering women and burying them where no one will look. When his careful concealment begins to unravel, Lucas Davenport closes in on a killer whose ordinary surface hides a monstrous appetite.

A world-famous supermodel and a teenage boy are found dead after a glittering party, and the case drags Lucas Davenport into the glamorous, treacherous world of high fashion. As the bodies and the suspects multiply, Davenport must sort the truth from the beautiful lies of people who have built their lives on appearances.

Between jobs and restless, Lucas Davenport agrees to help a presidential candidate he respects, hunting a credible threat of assassination as the Iowa caucuses approach. Somewhere in the heartland, a pair of true believers has decided that killing is justified to change the country — and Lucas has only days to find them.

A Russian national is shot dead on the shore of Lake Superior, his body riddled with old Soviet-era bullets. The killing pulls Lucas Davenport into a Cold War mystery that never quite ended, and into an uneasy partnership with a sharp Russian investigator as he hunts a secret that has been hidden for decades.

Two wealthy elderly women are bludgeoned to death in their homes, and at first the killings look like random burglaries gone wrong. But Lucas Davenport sees a pattern: someone is murdering rich old women and quietly stripping their homes of valuable antiques, a long con built on the assumption that no one is watching.

A federal judge known for his charitable work is gunned down alongside his two young sons in his own home. The killing is precise, professional, and baffling — the judge had no obvious enemies. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers dig into a respected man's hidden life to find a motive for the unthinkable.

A website appears featuring photographs of the children of powerful politicians, surrounded by extremist political rants. It could be protected speech — or a coded call for assassination. Lucas Davenport is quietly assigned to find out who is behind it before the implied threat against a senator's child becomes real.

Two bodies are found hanging from a tree in rural Minnesota — a black man and a white woman — and the scene screams racial hate crime. Newly appointed to a roving post with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Lucas Davenport is sent to investigate, and discovers that the truth is stranger and more personal than the politics suggest.

When the CEO of a major bank is shot dead on a hunting trip, the list of suspects is a who's who of ambitious executives, each with motive and opportunity. Lucas Davenport must navigate a world of corporate intrigue and personal rivalry to find a killer hiding among the ruthless men and women competing to take the dead man's place.

A string of ritual knife killings is cutting down public officials across the country, the victims linked by their roles in crimes against Native Americans. Lucas Davenport joins forces with a tough New York detective to hunt the assassins — and to untangle a conspiracy with roots in decades of injustice.

A dirty political trick — incriminating material planted on a senate candidate's computer — explodes into something far worse when the operative behind it disappears and a body turns up. Lucas Davenport is pulled into a high-stakes election-year investigation where the players are wealthy, ruthless, and willing to kill to win.

An entire family is slaughtered in an affluent Minnesota suburb, the savagery of the killings a message in itself. Lucas Davenport's investigation leads to a Mexican drug cartel, a laundering operation, and a stolen fortune — and to cartel enforcers who treat torture and murder as ordinary business.

A wealthy woman's daughter vanishes, and soon young people in the Twin Cities Goth scene begin turning up dead. The only witness describes a shadowy figure no one else can find — a phantom. Lucas Davenport must determine whether the killer is real, imagined, or something stranger still.