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Lucas Davenport returns, in one of the most startling Prey novels yet from the number-one-bestselling author.

The critics have always agreed: "Sandford's books are compulsively readable" (Los Angeles Times); "Few writers can match Sandford's smart, edgy, breakneck-speed thrillers" (Entertainment Weekly); "Sandford is a master at creating believable, indelible characters... [and] peerless when it comes to economical, taut plotting. He makes the difficult seem effortless" (Detroit Free Press)

And it's all true once again about Invisible Prey. This is one of the best Lucas Davenports ever — and one of the most surprising.

In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen. It's clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely, Davenport begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so random, if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually, a pattern begins to emerge — and it will lead Davenport to somewhere he never expected. Which is too bad, because the killers — and yes, there is more than one of them — the killers are expecting him.

Brilliantly suspenseful, filled with rich characterization and exciting drama, Invisible Prey is further proof that "Sandford is in a class of his own" (The Orlando Sentinel).