My home town isn’t mentioned (though I’m pretty sure Lucas Davenport drives through it at one point), but the story starts in Faribault, and then there’s Owatonna, and Red Wing, and Zumbrota, as well as a fictional town called Holbein.
But I’m a boy from Goodhue County, Minnesota, and Field of Prey is set precisely there, mostly. It is slightly different from the other novels in that Lucas is on his own in this investigation as the team are tied up elsewhere. Those of you who live in Manhattan or LA or Chicago are used to seeing stories set in your home towns. Field of Prey is the twenty-fourth novel in the series and while I haven't read the earliest ones I have been following the series for a while. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.” It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. Weather Davenport, wife of the hero, says, “TV. 24: Field of Prey (A Prey Novel 24) (Paperback): 9.99 25: Gathering Prey (A Prey Novel 25). Sandford deftly relieves the horror with episodes of mordant cop humor, and some dissing of political correctness.Īnd most importantly of all, he writes about Minnesota!Īt one point in Field of Prey, Dr. This is book number 32 in the A Prey Novel series. In a way you could call these books horror novels ( Psycho seems to be an inspiration for this one), and I don’t even like horror.īut… but I like the writing and the characters.
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I mean, I always have to warn you about the language, which can be pretty coarse, and the psycho serial killers, who just get more and more creepy. I should probably apologize for promoting John Sandford’s Prey novels, of which Field of Prey is the latest installment.
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