Hidden Prey (2005) is another of the excellent Lucas Davenport murder mysteries.

On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Rodion Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and his heart, and though nobody knows why, everybody — the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves — has a theory.

And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that’s when it hits the fan.

A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene — and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder.

Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she — yes, it’s a woman — a cop at all? Why was the man shot with fifty-year-old bullets?

Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there — shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.