John Sandford

Having spent the past two years in hiding following a daring & successful heist, a big-time robber is back in Minneapolis. Meanwhile, Lucas Davenport has problems of his own, targeted by a psychopath who blames him for the fact he's in a wheelchair.

The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson, Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was something smelled bad - like, really bad. He mentioned it to a county

While competing in a fishing tournament in remote northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport asking him to investigate the murder of a woman at a nearby resort. But the more Flowers digs, the more he discovers the place to be a hotbed of jealousy, blackmail, greed and fear. Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 20

In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport- you're about to get a visitor, it's an Israeli cop, and she's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic-a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. It turns out,

When a whole block is torn down in central Minneapolis to make way for a new housing development, an unpleasant surprise is unearthed. The bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic, are discovered underneath an old house. It looks like they've been down there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.