After the first book, I was hooked on this series and have been rolling through them very quickly. Unlike all the other police thrillers I have read (Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, and the Women’s Murder Club by James Patterson and Jesse Stone, Spenser, and Sunny Randall by Robert Parker), the dialogue in these is absolutely amazing, truthful, and full of adult inneundos. Some of it is downright hysterical! There are even some really bad jokes!
I like the team of Lucas, Rose Marie, Del, Sloan, Sherrill, and Black as they always find the bad person, but how they get there is different in every book. Each of these can easily have their own books. I also like trying to figure Lucas’s love life. In one book, he had the attention of three ladies.
In the past few books, Sandford has written a little blurb about that particular book and gives extra insights into to the characters. For Certain Prey, it was turned into a movie, and he mentioned it was bad and one of biggest things was having Eriq LaSalle play Lucas Davenport. I watched it, and it was meh! I am currently watching Mind Prey with Mark Harmon playing Davenport, which, I think, is a better representation.
Oh, Lucas is with the Minneapolis Police Department, and we just moved to Minnesota three weeks ago. Some of the places and towns that are mentioned, I am sort of familiar with. The main highway that is frequented by Lucas in his Porsche is I-35, and I took that all the way from Texas. I am still waiting for Lucas to be in my town!
