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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.

"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's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president...

Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.

Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three 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 then things go bad. One of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport....

Minneapolis police lieutenant Lucas Davenport teams up with New York cop Lily Rothenberg to investigate when a top FBI official is targeted by a band of Native Americans seeking revenge for an attack on one of their young women.

Lucas Davenport's old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooting job for the cases that are to complicated for others to handle. In addition, Lucas is married now, and a new father. But he's 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 naked people, a white woman and a black man, found hanging from a tree...

"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 knows, is pushed by brain chemistry, there is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair." "The second body is found three weeks later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display - except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two victims, nothing to indicate that the...

At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...

The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention. Throwing a big party is supposed to be fun, but crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. That's headache enough for Lucas Davenport but what's about to hit him is worse. A while back, a stray bullet put pimp and petty thief Randy Whitcomb in a wheel chair, and he's been nursing his grudge into a full head of psychotic steam. He blames Davenport for the...

A torn body turns up in the snow at a game reserve, another in a dumpster. A political hot potato of a case lands in the lap of Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport, who's none too happy to receive it. Still recovering from near-fatal wounds of his own, trying for once in his life to settle down with one woman, this case is the last thing he needs. And, as it turns out, solving it is nearly the last thing he does.