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In the misty spring of Minnesota, a shallow grave reveals the strangled body of a young woman. When police discover an obscene drawing that grafts her face onto a pornographic image, detective Lucas Davenport is drawn into a quest to identify the killer. With the help of a local sheriff’s deputy, he follows a trail of disturbing reproductions that suggest multiple victims, all connected to a nearby university and each with a mysterious boyfriend. As he digs deeper, he confronts a sinister plot of deceit and murder that threatens to trap another “chosen prey.”
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: John Sandford
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