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btknight's review against another edition
4.0
Another solid Davenport novel. Definitely a lot of twists and turns, and I felt like the love triangle he was involved with in this one actually added some value. It ended pretty abruptly without really figuring anything out woman wise but I guess that’s why we read the next one!
t_hen44's review against another edition
3.0
John Sandford's Prey series keeps rolling along with its 11th novel, Easy Prey. Detective Lucas Davenport is at a crossroads when his personal life starts interfering with his professional one.
A supermodel is murdered while at a party of the rich and famous. Another body is found at the same time but the second victim seems to be someone just as the wrong place at the wrong time. Headlines are everywhere; drugs, sex, and secrets surrounding the model, Alie's Maison's death are putting pressure on Lucas and his team to solve the case quickly. The bodies continue to pile up as do the motives and the suspects. When a member of Lucas' team is critically injured, he pulls out all the stops to find the murderer.
Old friends and lovers are at the heart of the novel and the mystery. Easy Prey was a somewhat bloated Davenport novel. Lucas' ongoing angst and indecision about the women in his life felt tedious after the fifth or sixth revelation about why/how he was attracted to each of them (Jael =sex, Catrin = nostalgia, and Weather = love). The murders almost take a backseat to Lucas' love life.
Easy Prey is one of the weaker novels in the series but one that a true fan shouldn't skip.
A supermodel is murdered while at a party of the rich and famous. Another body is found at the same time but the second victim seems to be someone just as the wrong place at the wrong time. Headlines are everywhere; drugs, sex, and secrets surrounding the model, Alie's Maison's death are putting pressure on Lucas and his team to solve the case quickly. The bodies continue to pile up as do the motives and the suspects. When a member of Lucas' team is critically injured, he pulls out all the stops to find the murderer.
Old friends and lovers are at the heart of the novel and the mystery. Easy Prey was a somewhat bloated Davenport novel. Lucas' ongoing angst and indecision about the women in his life felt tedious after the fifth or sixth revelation about why/how he was attracted to each of them (Jael =sex, Catrin = nostalgia, and Weather = love). The murders almost take a backseat to Lucas' love life.
Easy Prey is one of the weaker novels in the series but one that a true fan shouldn't skip.
sean_from_ohio's review against another edition
3.0
Another solid Lucas Davenport novel but this one was different. While there are still heinous crimes we don't get much in the way of looking at things from the killer's eyes. I think I missed it. The ending was not typical and the book was a great police procedural but I think the normal Sandford edge was missing. The book's best parts were how Lucas is trying to deal with the women in his life. Overall, not a bad book but the series has seen much better.
shanep's review against another edition
4.0
This one was a little different as we did not get the bad guy's commentary through the book. It was a good twist.
mutney44's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars. This series is great; I liked Certain Prey a little better.
teeread_it's review against another edition
4.0
Man, there were a lot of dead people piling up and Lucas made quite a few mistakes. Thinking more, he probably heads wrong as much as right mostly. But, yeah didn’t see that coming and enjoyed the takedown
rachaelinpa's review against another edition
3.0
Lucas Davenport does it again, what else is there to say. I always enjoy these books.
j_rowley's review against another edition
3.0
Davenport chases the killer of a famous model. Along the way he finds that me might be able to get back together with Weather, but former flame from college who is undergoing her own midlife crisis and a model turned potter distract him. Marcy is hospitalized after being shot. Has the usual sex, violence, and bad language. Always interesting to see how far Davenport will go to outmaneuver the worst of the worst criminals.