Recently read: John Sandford’s Rules of Prey

I’m embarrassed to admit that, although I’ve been aware of this Minnesota writer, I hadn’t read any of his books until recently. Now I’m hooked. Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize winning St. Paul journalist, John Camp. His books under his Sandford name are excellent thrillers, and are well-written. His protagonist, Lucas Davenport, is a dashing, ruthless detective, who—at least in this first book of the series first published in 1989—is a bit too James Bondish for today’s sensitive male investigators, but I imagine he evolves with the later books. In this, frantic Minneapolis police try to find a serial killer. Computer games (remember, this was written in the late 1980s when there weren’t computers in every home and only a specialized group of youngsters and geeks did the advanced searching and virtual world play that many do now) figure in the plot. I’m delighted to have finally started reading this prolific writer.