Bucher lived in a mansion stuffed with antiques, though it's unclear if robbery was the motive for the murders. The brave and intelligent Davenport, one of contemporary crime fiction's more congenial sleuths, is working a politically sensitive case-state senator Burt Kline is on the edge of being arrested for having sex with a minor-when he's called in to investigate the beating death of wealthy widow Constance Bucher and her maid. The girls and the other victims felt like after thoughts.Bestseller Sandford opts for a contemplative procedural rather than a high-octane nail-biter for his 17th novel to feature Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport (after 2005's Broken Prey We could have had more heart in this one. Maybe they would have blamed Lucas or the police for what happened. That would have been nice to see how their marriage fell apart after losing their kids.
We don’t even have Lucas following up with the parents in the present day. Sandford could have done so much more with this book. the most important thing is that Lucas isn’t going to go to jail for killing him. I mean forget the fact that he murdered and raped little girls. Lucas decides he’s going to try to choke a guy out who has a gun and it causes one of his friends to shoot the guy and then he’s dead. Though Sandford throws in a scene there with Letty asking Lucas how is he going to get the guy and kill him.
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People talking about Lucas and trying to prevent him from killing a serial killer. Her death is an inconvenience because with her dead, Lucas may do something really really bad and that’s the last 1/3 of the freaking book. Third, Marcy ceases to matter after being murdered. She even muses about getting with him again if something should happen to Weather. In this one, Marcy is still single, not finding the one, and still thinking about Lucas. Second, Sandford in the last book had shown us that Marcy was married and had a toddler named James. First, it makes zero sense that Marcy would be traveling solo. I am annoyed about the fridging for a variety of reasons. Heck if Sandford wanted it to hurt readers, he should have killed off Weather or even Letty (I would have cheered). Sandford decides to follow the age old formula of fridging a woman for a male character’s development. We only get Marcy for a bit though and then it becomes apparent why. We also get third person POVs of the serial killer and with Marcy. And then we go back to the present day with Lucas working the case.
We follow Lucas back in 1985 (he sucked) and how he met some people we know now. Sandford takes a different approach here.
Now though he hopes to find the man who killed these girls. This case had initially haunted Lucas, but he put it away. These girls were the first case of a serial killer (he doesn’t know that yet) that Lucas worked on as a cop back in 1985. We have Lucas standing by when the bodies of two young missing girls are found. This book was a hot mess after we leave the “before” timeline and go back to the “present” timeline. His freaking teenage daughter even talks to him about making sure he gets revenge. Oh hell no, everyone must be focused on preventing Lucas from murdering the serial pedophile murderer since everyone knows that he loved Marcy and must get his revenge. And then of course everyone is not focused on Marcy. The fact that Sandford cheapens Marcy’s death by forgetting her backstory and having her thinking about Lucas in a someday romantic style made me heave. Lucas is not the end all be all for women everywhere.
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I may just give up reading anymore books in this series or ensuring they are library borrows. So I can’t talk about this book without spoilers.
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