John Sandford

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1989
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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About the Author

John Sanford is the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp. A N.Y. Times Bestselling Author, Camp has written 31 novels and several non-fiction books. The Fools Run was his first novel.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1986 for a series of stories on a Minnesota farm family during the farm crisis. He divides his time between Minnesota and California.

Full Series List in Order

Letty Davenport

1 - The Investigator (Apr-2022)
2 - Dark Angel (Apr-2023)

Lucas Davenport / Prey

1 - Rules of Prey (Jul-1989)
2 - Shadow Prey (Jun-1990)
3 - Eyes of Prey (Apr-1991)
4 - Silent Prey (Mar-1992)
5 - Winter Prey (Mar-1993)
6 - Night Prey (Jun-1994)
7 - Mind Prey (May-1995)
8 - Sudden Prey (May-1996)
9 - Secret Prey (May-1998)
10 - Certain Prey (May-1999)
11 - Easy Prey (May-2000)
12 - Chosen Prey (May-2001)
13 - Mortal Prey (May-2002)
14 - Naked Prey (May-2003)
15 - Hidden Prey (May-2004)
16 - Broken Prey (May-2005)
17 - Invisible Prey (May-2007)
18 - Phantom Prey (May-2008)
19 - Wicked Prey (May-2009)
20 - Storm Prey (May-2010)
21 - Buried Prey (May-2011)
22 - Stolen Prey (May-2012)
23 - Silken Prey (May-2013)
24 - Field of Prey (May-2014)
25 - Gathering Prey (May-2015)
26 - Extreme Prey (May-2016)
27 - Golden Prey (Apr-2017)
28 - Twisted Prey (Apr-2018)
29 - Neon Prey (Apr-2019)
30 - Masked Prey (Apr-2020)
31 - Ocean Prey (Apr-2021)
32 - Righteous Prey (Oct-2022)
33 - Judgment Prey (Oct-2023)
34 - Toxic Prey (Apr-2024)
35 - Lethal Prey (Apr-2025)

Virgil Flowers

1 - Dark of the Moon (Oct-2007)
2 - Heat Lightning (Oct-2008)
3 - Rough Country (Oct-2009)
4 - Bad Blood (Oct-2010)
5 - Shock Wave (Oct-2011)
6 - Mad River (Oct-2012)
7 - Storm Front (Oct-2013)
8 - Deadline (Oct-2014)
9 - Escape Clause (Oct-2016)
10 - Deep Freeze (Oct-2017)
11 - Holy Ghost (Oct-2018)
12 - Bloody Genius (Oct-2019)
13 - Ocean Prey (Apr-2021)
14 - Righteous Prey (Oct-2022)
15 - Judgment Prey (Oct-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Kidd & Luellen

3 - The Devil's Code (Oct-2000)
4 - The Hanged Man's Song (Nov-2003)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Rules of Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 1

    The killer was mad, but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used... So many rules to his sick, violent games of death...

  • Shadow Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 2

    A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis. A politician executed in Manhattan. A judge slain in Oklahoma City. All killed by a relentless assassin - a ritualistic, far from ordinary, serial killer....

  • Eyes of Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 3

    Lieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse... Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark...

  • Silent Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 4

    Once, Bekker indulged his brilliant obsession with death; now he is in prison. Once, he was hunted by a man who understood the genius of murder; now he wants revenge. . . . Lieutenant Davenport should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. . . ....

  • Winter Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 5

    The Iceman crept up to the house on the edge of the lake. He killed the father first. Then the mother and child. And when his work was done, he set the house on fire... Lucas Davenport had tracked killers in cities across America. But the woods of...

  • Night Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 6

    Porsche-driving Lucas Davenport, who has just returned to duty after recovering from a serious gunshot wound, is charged with saving the political life of Rose Marie Roux, the ambitious police chief who has her eye on a Senate seat. He's given the as...

  • Mind Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 7

    He knows Lucas Davenport's mind. His every move. His every weakness... John Sandford's acclaimed Prey novels have plunged readers into the darkest recesses of the criminal mind. Now his brilliant detective, Lucas Davenport, knows he has met his ma...

  • Sudden Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 8

    It begins with a death and ends with one. For months, Lucas Davenport's men have been tracking a vicious woman bank robber named Candy, and when they finally catch up with her, she does not go quietly. In the ensuing shoot-out, she dies -- and Davenp...

  • The Night Crew

    Bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed Prey novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A. - where the Night Crew works. A mobile unit of video freelancers, they prowl the midnight streets for news to sel...



  • Secret Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 9

    IT BEGINS WITH A SINGLE GUNSHOT. A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this "routin...

  • Certain Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 10

    Clara Rinker is a southerner, trim, pleasant, attractive -- and the best hit woman in the business. She isn't showy, not like one of those movie killers; she just goes quietly about her business, collects her money, and goes home. It's when she's hi...

  • Easy Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 11

    In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city...

  • The Devil's Code

    Kidd & Luellen - 3

    When Kidd - artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal - learns of a colleague's murder, he doesn't buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It's not what his fr...

  • Chosen Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 12

    Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet -- the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession... Art history professor James Qatar's hobby was taking secret photographs of women. At night when he ...

  • Mortal Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 13

    This time, Lucas Davenport is the prey Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies h...

  • Naked Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 14

    Lucas Davenport's 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...

  • The Hanged Man's Song

    Kidd & Luellen - 4

    “Hard-boiled computer hacker Kidd and his sometime girlfriend LuEllen make for a refreshingly roguish couple” (Entertainment Weekly). Now they’re back in #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford’s electrifying novel of murder, intri...

  • Hidden Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 15

    Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Orslov is found s...

  • Broken Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 16

    The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad lov...



  • Dead Watch

    Senator Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barbwired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. ...

  • Invisible Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 17

    Sometimes you don't see it coming, until it's too late. In a wealthy Minneapolis neighborhood, two elderly women are bludgeoned to death. They are apparently the victims of a random robbery, though nothing of value appears to have been taken. But ...

  • Dark of the Moon

    Virgil Flowers - 1

    Virgil Flowers-tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's-had kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First, it was the army and the military police, then the police ...

  • Phantom Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 18

    A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no body--and her collegeaged daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them "Goths"? Freaks is more li...

  • Heat Lightning

    Virgil Flowers - 2

    Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers is only in his mid-thirties, but he doesn't think much can surprise him anymore. In John Sandford's Heat Lightning, he'll realize that he's wrong. On a hot, humid summer night in ...

  • Wicked Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 19

    Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close to home, in the superlative new thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. For twenty years, John Sandford's novels have been beloved for their "ingenious plots, vivid characters, ...

  • Rough Country

    Virgil Flowers - 3

    While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers receives a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a brutal murder at a nearby resort for women only. As Virgil begins investigating, he finds a web of co...

  • Storm Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 20

    This time, there's a storm brewing...Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But...

  • Bad Blood

    Virgil Flowers - 4

    One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator -- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the she...

  • Buried Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 21

    A block on the edge of the Minneapolis loop is being razed when a macabre discovery is made: two girls buried under a rotted old house. Lucas Davenport knows how long they've been there. In 1985, he was part of the manhunt to track down two kidnapped...



  • Shock Wave

    Virgil Flowers - 5

    A billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small river town for its next outlet. Two very angry want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their and environmentalists, predicting ecological The protests are ignored, until a bomb goes off ...

  • Stolen Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 22

    Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed -- husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas...

  • Mad River

    Virgil Flowers - 6

    Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what’s-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, ...

  • Silken Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 23

    Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport’s going to be lucky to get out of this one alive. Very early one morning, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s w...

  • Storm Front

    Virgil Flowers - 7

    In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You’re about to get a visitor. It’s an Israeli cop, and she’s tailing a man who’s smuggled out an extraor...

  • Field of Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 24

    The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. ...

  • Deadline

    Virgil Flowers - 8

    In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. “Issues” is correct. The proposal up for a vote before...

  • Gathering Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 25

    They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes -- they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport’s adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a pho...

  • Saturn Run: A Novel of 2066

    For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course ...

  • Extreme Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 26

    After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation -- no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along ...



  • Escape Clause

    Virgil Flowers - 9

    Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers’ case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are “pure reading pleasure” (Booklist). The first storm comes from, of all places...

  • Golden Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 27

    Lucas Davenport’s first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenpor...

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2017

    "Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly “Some people might tell you that crime short stories...

  • Deep Freeze

    Virgil Flowers - 10

    Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly--in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few year...

  • Twisted Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 28

    Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator, in this thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling new novel in the Prey series. Lucas Davenport had crossed paths with her before. A rich psychopath, Taryn Grant had run succe...

  • Holy Ghost

    Virgil Flowers - 11

    The Hardcover Dust Jacket Synopsis: Virgil Flowers investigates a murder--and a miracle--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) Wheatfield, Minnesota is a metropolis of all of six hundre...

  • Neon Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 29

    Lucas Davenport pursues a prolific serial killer who has gone undetected for years in the newest nail-biter by #1 NewYork Times bestselling author John Sandford. It was a relatively minor criminal matter, all things considered, but enough that the...

  • Bloody Genius

    Virgil Flowers - 12

    Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestseller John Sandford. At the local state university, two feuding departments have f...

  • Masked Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 30

    Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media p...

  • Ocean Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 31
    Virgil Flowers - 13

    Fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case in the remarkable new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls ...



  • The Investigator

    Letty Davenport - 1

    Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. “Sandford fans rejoice! Davenport next generation has arrived and L...

  • Righteous Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 32
    Virgil Flowers - 14

    Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. “We’re going to murder people who need to ...

  • Dark Angel

    Letty Davenport - 2

    The second book featuring Letty Davenport, the tough-as-nails adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, this time taking on an undercover case that brings her across the country--and into the most dangerous group she has ever faced.When a group of hackers...

  • Judgment Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 33
    Virgil Flowers - 15

    Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when al...

  • Toxic Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 34

    Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.Gaia is dying.That, at least, i...

  • Lethal Prey

    Lucas Davenport / Prey - 35

    Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to track down a ruthless killer who will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an a...

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John Sandford has published 55 books.

The next book by John Sandford, Lethal Prey, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by John Sandford, Rules of Prey, was published in July 1989.

Yes. John Sandford has 3 series.
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