She ground her teeth at the thought of the bad guy from the Wild West, dressed all in black, coming to gun her down. A black western shirt was tucked into black Wranglers molded to powerful thighs. The man was frighteningly large, with broad shoulders and a tapered waist leading to lean hips. Adrenaline surged through her body and she fought a wild urge to run. Her heart pounded as she took a step backward into her home. His eyes were shadowed by a Stetson pulled low over his forehead. Lyra Collins? the man repeated in a bass rumble that made her skin tingle. She hadn’t even heard him following her until she’d opened her front door. Lyra gripped the plastic grocery bag tight in one fist and swallowed hard as she stood in her doorway and slowly turned to face the tall man on her porch. McCray is another first time author for me and I will definitely be reading more of her books. There are one or two incidents that had me shaking my head in disbelief but these do not ruin the overall reading experience. The writing is well-paced and the dialogue flows. The secondary characters are also well-developed, especially Dare’s partner (hopefully he will get his own book) and the cult leader, whose disgusting depravity is enough to make your skin crawl. One problematic issue with their relationship is that, given Lyra’s past, it progresses for too quickly to be completely believable but it is enjoyable nonetheless. Lyra is independent, intelligent and courageous, and is able to get out of some seriously sticky situations using her wits alone. Dare is a strong, honorable and surprisingly forgiving hero – I’m not sure I would be as accepting of someone who sprayed pepper spray in my face. The love scenes are steamy but not overly explicit, and the main characters are engaging. An escapee from a cult, Lyra finds it difficult to trust anyone but will have to work with Dare in order to thwart the plans of a fanatical cult leader convinced that Lyra is the foretold mother of the new Messiah.Ī well-written, suspenseful and engrossing plot with just the right mix of action and romance. The book should hit #1 its first week out.When former cop turned private investigator, Dare Lancaster accidentally leads a fanatical cult straight to Lyra Collins, he realizes that he has placed her in danger and is determined to save her at all costs. (May)įorecast: Sandford's thrillers are reliably excellent, and his latest, a BOMC main selection backed by a national ad/ promo campaign and an author tour, marks a high point in the Prey series. Sandford is in top form here, his wry humor and his development of Lucas's combative, affectionate relationship with Weather lighting up the dark of another grisly investigation. With Lucas and his team watching his every move, he eludes surveillance and carries out a final desperate attack. As the net tightens, the usually coolheaded Qatar, already plotting the fate of a daring fabric artist in cahoots with the police, gradually loses control. The art world connections of some of the victims and the discovery of pornographic drawings suggests a link to the art community around the local Catholic university. Fearing the worst, Lucas orders the hillside surveyed subsequent excavation uncovers seven more bodies. Soon after the body of a young blonde is found in a partially excavated grave on a remote wilderness hillside, a deputy sheriff from backwater Wisconsin shows up with a file containing case histories of several women reported missing in Wisconsin and Minnesota over a nine-year period. Weather is a formidable distraction, but the killer-revealed to readers from the beginning as James Qatar, a suave professor of art history with a yen for strangulation-proves to require even more attention. Lucas is trying to track an elusive serial killer while reuniting with former fiancée Weather Karkinnen who-after a couple of years' estrangement following her narrow escape from a crazy biker in one of Lucas's former cases-has suddenly decided she wants to have his baby. The 13th title in the Prey series ( Easy Prey, etc.) has wealthy Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport in up to his Porsche-driving fingertips.
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