Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio book store and download or stream it right to. Keeping a long series fresh is a challenge for any author, but it looks as if John Sandford has started out in a promising new direction here. Download or stream Shadow Prey by John Sandford. In fact, the contrast between the two female characters makes Clara look even more formidable than she would on her own. But she’s portrayed as so over-the-top that it’s impossible to take her seriously she’s more a caricature than a character. There’s even a second female major character in this novel. But in Clara Rinker, Davenport seems to have met his match in intellect, intuitiveness, coldness, and cunning. All of the homicides share the same grisly method the victims throat is slashed with an Indian ceremonial. An influential judge taken in Oklahoma City. A rising political star executed in Manhattan. A slumlord and a welfare supervisor butchered in Minneapolis.

Most of his other female characters-even the more fully developed ones like Lily Rothenberg, a police lieutenant from New York City-exist mainly to hop into bed with Davenport. A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling author John Sandford. Shadow Prey (A Prey Novel) by Sandford, John, Paperback, Used - Very Good Author.

I suspect Sandford has given us Clara Rinker because of criticism that he can’t create a dynamic female character.

When Rinker does a job in Minnesota and, for the first time in her career, makes a tiny mistake, she and Lucas engage in an intellectual cat-and-mouse game. And what a villain it is: Clara Rinker, the best hit woman (or hit man) around. In his latest Lucas Davenport thriller John Sandford does something different: he focuses on the villain as much as on the hero. Putnam’s Sons, 339 pages, $24.95 hardcover

Shadow prey by john sandford