Field of Prey (A Prey Novel)

About this book

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner. The night after the fourth of July Layton Carlson Jr. of Red Wing Minnesota finally got lucky. And unlucky. Hed 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 badlike really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew and when the cop took a look he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another and another. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in the police were up to fifteen bodies and counting. And as if that wasnt bad enough when Lucas began to investigate he made some disturbing discoveries of his own. The victims had been killed over a great many years one every summer regular as clockwork. How could this have happened without anybody noticing? Because one thing was for sure: the killer had to live close by. He was probably even someone they saw every day. . . .