They were competent and piggy backed ideas and plans off each other. I thought that they were a fantastic pair. She’s an interesting character who is very loyal to her husband, but eventually we learn that things might not appear as they seem and Lucas spends a good deal of the book chasing after her. Our police-on-a-loan who came to help investigate the case, all the way from New York, is Lily Rothenburg. Things pick up even faster than they already were and there are multiple scenes that had me going “OMG”. The beginning is already fast and relentless, unforgiving, but by the time the middle rolls around it becomes intense. I didn’t feel sorry for any of those that died.
After all, the killings were aimed at some awful people who have been exploiting and harming the Native American community. This time, he can just barely manage to get the help of his usual connections on the streets. The body count couldn’t go up any faster and there’s nothing that Davenport can do. There is one that took place in New York, same method, same weapon, which brings us Lily Rothenburg who is here to help investigate as the case is now crossing state lines. We literally have killing after killings and there’re not even all in Minnesota. I thought that the plot was already fast to begin with. There’s also multiple people who help act on the plan which is where the first killing happens and Davenport is called in to investigate. They’ve orchestrated for the deaths of multiple people, all of whom have wrong the Native American communities in their own way, with their final killing aimed at someone very high up. The killings are planned by two older Native American men who are known as the Crows to the community. One of the cops even gets away with it and by the time we return to present day (chapter one), he’s well on his way to an office position. The story opens up to a prologue of a very young girl being raped by cops and the length that the government and higher ups take to cover up the incident is just awful. This whole book is disgusting and I’m practically cheering the antagonists on the entire way through. What happened in the end with Shadow Love and Jennifer sent chills up my spine because he’s a cold cold man. I can’t figure it out, but he does feel even more wild in this book, but it may be due to his experience in the first book with maddog. But, even if we’re reading chronically, there’s still something different in book two’s Davenport versus book one. It’s a younger and more wild side of Davenport that I’ve not seen before. It’s pretty interesting to get to know Davenport backwards. By the time I’m seeing him around in Virgil’s books, he’s generally settled down (personality and life). So in short, I know Davenport as an older and highly experience veteran at his job, the mentor and supervisor to Virgil. In VF, he’s a relatively calmer person and generally mostly pissed about Virgil’s forgetting to carry his gun, “better not be on that boat” (Virgil likes to fish and yes, tends to bring his boat around to cases), and “ wtf bro it’s 4am, what’s SO urgent at 4am” grumpiness. Other than these two, Davenport’s only other appearances are quick (usually over the phone) cameos in the Virgil Flowers books. But, my experience with Davenport has been limited to his introduction in book 1 and the only other Prey book I’ve read so far, Field of Prey, way out in book 24. By now, I’ve read about 9 out of 13 Virgil Flowers books so I have a rough guess of how Virgil will act in most of them. I didn’t know what to expect going into the Prey series. Because Shadow Love is right behind them. But despite the countrywide carnage they needn’t look far.
Recruited to be the lethal hand of a terrorist campaign, Shadow Love has his own bloody agenda, one he will do anything to achieve.Įnlisted to find him are Minneapolis police lieutenant Lucas Davenport and New York City police officer Lily Rothenburg. TW/CW: Violence and gore, graphic violence, blood, language, rape, rape of minor, child exploitations Blurb ( Goodreads)Ī slumlord butchered in Minneapolis…A rising political star executed in Manhattan…A judge slashed to death in Oklahoma City…Įach victim has a history of bad behavior, but the only thing the killings have in common is the murder weapon-a Native American ceremonial knife-and a trail of blood that leads to an embodiment of evil known only as Shadow Love. Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery > Crime, Mystery > Police Procedural, Suspense Title: Shadow Prey (Book 2 of Lucas Davenport/Prey series)
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