The 14th book in the Lucas Davenport series is a GOOD one.
12-year-old muskrat trapper Letty West is a wonderful character. The plot is intriguing and entertaining: a stolen car ring, an ex-nun who smuggles cancer drugs over the Canadian border, and the usual internecine wrangling between the FBI, the local cops, and Davenp
… in Naked Prey (2003), he puts Lucas Davenport through some changes.
His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle.
In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him: he doesn’t mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. For every bit of peace you get, you have to pay — and he’s waiting for the bill.
It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota.
What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman, and they’re naked.
“Lynching” is the word that everybody’s trying not to say — but, as Lucas begins to discover, in fact the murders are nothing like what they appear to be, and they are not the end of it. …
Rick McCharles 