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Rules of Prey by John Sandford
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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.
But Lucas Davenport, the cop who’s out to get him, isn’t playing by the rules.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota
Wisconsin
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
35 Chapters
Character List
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Lucas Davenport: Detective Lieutenant in the Office of Special Intelligence in the MPD, assigned to the maddog case. Well-known game inventor; tall with black hair, gray at the temples, blue eyes, and dark complexion.
Harrison Sloan: Detective working with Davenport on the maddog case.
Swanson: Homicide detective assigned to the maddog case.
Quentin Daniel: Minneapolis Chief of Police.
Linda: Chief Daniel's assistant.
Lyle Wullfolk: Head of the Homicide Division.
Harmon Anderson: Assistant head of the Homicide Division.
Frank Lester: Deputy chief for investigations, Minneapolis Police Department.
Anthony (Tony) Rubella: Minneapolis Police Department police officer and pilot.
Billy Case: Six-year veteran cop who was dismissed after being caught with prostitutes.
Bucky: Internal affairs cop.
York: Surveillance cop.
Sally Johnson: MPD policewoman injured during the sting.
Harold (Harry) Roe: MPD cop nearing retirement.
Cochrane: Rookie cop who screwed up the sting.
Sickles: Sally Johnson's partner.
Carroll: Cedar Rapids, Iowa police detective.
Sam: Medical examiner.
Del McCarthy: Defense attorney.
Kenneth Hart: Attorney who is an acquaintance of maddog.
Jennifer Carey: Channel 3 TV reporter who has a degree in economics from Stanford and a masters in journalism from Columbia. She's tall with blond hair and green eyes.
Annie McGowan: Channel Eight TV reporter, very attractive with the "brains of an oyster."
Don Kennedy: Channel 3 TV reporter.
Denise Ring: City editor for the Pioneer Press.
Carla Ruiz: Artist attacked by maddog.
Louis Vullion: Maddog killer.
Jeannie Lewis: Real estate agent and murder victim.
Heather Brown: Young prostitute and murder victim.
Jefferson Sparks: Heather's pimp.
Louis the White: Heather's former pimp.
Jimmy Smithe: Suspect believed to be maddog.
Shirley Morris: The second of maddog's victims, a 36-year-old housewife.
Cheryl Wheatcroft: Disabled law student and murder victim.
Lucy Bell: The first of maddog's victims in Minneapolis, a 19-year-old waitress.
Larry Rice: Owner of maddog's lost gun.
Mary Rice: Larry's wife.
Frankie: Bar owner.
Shirley Jensen: Runs the Silk Hat Health Club.
Alan Nester: Owner of Objets d’Art Orientaux.
Vincent Short: Motel owner of one of maddog's crime scenes.
Bald Peterson: Muscle for the Silk Hat Health Club. Lucas has a history with him.
Sister Mary Joseph: Formerly known as Elle Kruger. Childhood friend of Lucas and now is a nun and a professor of Psychology at St. Anne's College in St. Paul.
Carl Werschel: Neighbor of maddog who interfered with the sting.
Lois Werschel: Carl's wife.
Bethany Jankalo: Associate at maddog's law firm. (hide spoiler)]