The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner. “If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport’s going to be lucky to get out of this one alive. Very early one morning, a Minnesota...

Lucas Davenport chases an insane pathologist who has been conducting experiments on his dying victims in New York. Lucas teams up with policewoman Lily Rothenburg to find him.

Lucas Davenport investigates a series of horrific murders that bear a striking resemblance to the techniques of three psychopathic killers locked up in the Minnesota Security Hospital.

In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed. To Lucas Davenport, it looks an awful lot like the drug killings he's seen. But this is an upscale town, and a victim was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn't seem to fit. Until it does.

Lucas Davenport struggles to stay out of the crossfire when he is enlisted by the FBI to track down Clara Rinker, a retired assassin who has gone back into action after her boyfriend, the son of a Mexican druglord, is killed by a bullet she knows was meant for her.

"Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer ... Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation....