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A high-ranking Russian defector and his family are moved into witness protection near Minneapolis, with Lucas Davenport assigned to help receive them. When a professional hit team tracks the convoy, Lucas must uncover the leak and stop the assassins before they finish the job.

Two decades after an accountant was found stabbed and dumped in a St. Paul park, her twin sister offers a massive reward on true-crime sites to finally catch the killer. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers re-open the cold case, only to find a murderer who’s been hiding in plain sight.

Epidemiologist Lionel Scott believes humanity is killing the planet—and disappears after developing a terrifying new virus. Letty Davenport is tasked with tracking him down and pulls her father, Lucas, into a global manhunt where eco-terrorism and bioweapons research collide.

A federal judge and his two young sons are gunned down at home, a crime that shocks St. Paul. With local police and the FBI stymied, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are brought in to sort through political enemies, charitable dealings, and a grieving widow who may know more than she says.

After her work in Texas, Letty Davenport is recruited to infiltrate a hacker collective called Ordinary People. Posing as a programmer on a cross-country road trip, she and an NSA partner must figure out whether the group is plotting sabotage—or being steered by someone even more dangerous.

Restless with her desk job for a U.S. senator, Letty Davenport jumps at an assignment to investigate stolen crude oil in Texas. Partnered with a Homeland Security agent, she uncovers a militia movement funding something far worse than simple theft.

A secretive group calling itself The Five announces online that it will murder people who “need to be murdered” and then donates cryptocurrency to charity after each kill. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to track the bored, ultra-wealthy vigilantes before the killings spiral.

After three Coast Guardsmen are murdered investigating a suspicious dive boat off Florida, the stalled case lands on Lucas Davenport’s desk. He teams up with Virgil Flowers, going undercover around a dangerous offshore drug operation where the evidence lies a hundred feet below the surface.

When the teenage children of prominent politicians discover their photos on a hate-filled extremist website, Washington turns to Lucas Davenport. With no obvious crime yet committed, Lucas has to trace anonymous agitators through fringe groups before ugly rhetoric turns into real bloodshed.

Chasing a low-level enforcer who skipped bail, U.S. marshal Lucas Davenport discovers the man has been burying victims in a Louisiana swamp and may have turned cannibal. The pursuit drags Lucas across the country as the fugitive joins a violent robbery crew out West.

A prominent but abrasive medical researcher is bludgeoned to death in a university library. Virgil Flowers navigates academic rivalries, corporate interests, and campus politics to find out who hated the victim enough to turn a genteel setting into a crime scene.

A suspicious crash in Washington, D.C., points Lucas Davenport back to Taryn Grant, a billionaire psychopath he once failed to nail who is now a U.S. senator. Working as a marshal, he probes a circle of hired killers and political power that won’t hesitate to kill him too.

A tiny Minnesota town claims to be seeing the Virgin Mary in the local church, drawing pilgrims—and badly needed cash. When someone starts shooting visitors, Virgil Flowers is sent to sort miracle from scam and unmask a sniper hiding among the faithful.

Now a U.S. marshal who can pick his own cases, Lucas Davenport goes after a legendary stickup man who robbed a cartel counting house and left a child dead. As cartel enforcers close in, Lucas races brutal professionals willing to butcher anyone in their way.

On](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SNVCPMW%22,%22description%22:%22On) a fishing trip in Montana, Virgil Flowers is drawn into a local murder investigation and ends up working alongside sheriff Regan Pescoli. Their short story case from the anthology *MatchUp* forces both investigators to confront a killer who knows the river country far too well.

In the dead of winter, Virgil Flowers returns to the quirky town of Trippton to investigate the murder of a banker found frozen in the river. Between gossiping locals, a struggling business community, and an amateur porn scheme, almost everyone seems to have something to hide.

Shay Remby’s band of activists has badly damaged the Singular Corporation, but powerful backers are quietly sweeping up the mess. As whistleblowers vanish and evidence disappears, the group plans one final, all-out attack to bring the entire operation down—or die trying.

No longer with the BCA, Lucas Davenport joins the staff of Minnesota’s governor during a presidential campaign. On the trail he discovers a pair of extremists convinced the governor must die to save the country, and he has to stop them without derailing the race.

Two rare Amur tigers vanish from a Minnesota zoo, and Virgil Flowers is tasked with finding them before they’re butchered for the black market. The trail leads through animal traffickers, ruthless buyers, and a local family feud that turns unexpectedly violent.

In 2066, a space telescope spots an object decelerating near Saturn—proof of alien technology. The U.S. rushes to jury-rig a ship and race China to the prize, sending a thrown-together crew into deep space where politics, physics, and human error are just as dangerous as the unknown.

After rescuing Shay’s brother and a girl used in a memory-transfer experiment, the crew goes on offense against the Singular Corporation. Odin’s hacking skills and Fenfang’s stolen knowledge could expose everything—if the company doesn’t kill them first to protect its secrets.

Lucas Davenport’s adopted daughter Letty calls him after a young traveler friend vanishes while following a dangerous drifter known only as Pilate. The search drags Lucas into a roving community of street kids, cultish followers, and a murderous gang that treats the highways as hunting grounds.

Sixteen-year-old Shay Remby arrives in Hollywood with a handmade knife and almost no cash, hunting for her hacker brother after a botched raid on a Singular Corp lab. As corporate security closes in, Shay teams up with street kids to expose grotesque experiments and save her brother.

In this crossover novella from the anthology *FaceOff*, Lincoln Rhyme and Minnesota detective Lucas Davenport team up when a case spans New York and the Midwest. Combining Rhyme’s forensic brilliance with Davenport’s on‑the‑ground instincts, they hunt a predator neither man could easily stop alone.

A teenager smells something wrong in a Minnesota cornfield and discovers a cistern packed with bodies—victims killed over many summers and left to rot underground. Lucas Davenport digs into the cold trail of a patient serial killer who’s been hiding in plain sight.

Sent to look into a series of dog thefts, Virgil Flowers instead stumbles onto a county school board quietly skimming millions from the budget. When one of the conspirators turns up dead, he has to stop both a cover-up and a killer determined to keep the money flowing.

Virgil Flowers lands a strange one: an Israeli antiquities expert has stolen a sacred stone from a dig and brought it to Minnesota. Competing governments, treasure hunters, and con artists converge, turning a supposedly sleepy case into a chaotic chase across the state.

A smear campaign involving child pornography detonates in a heated Senate race, and a political fixer vanishes soon after. Lucas Davenport follows the trail to a relentlessly ambitious candidate and her ruthless inner circle, where murder and dirty tricks blur into each other.

In a wealthy Minnesota suburb, an entire family—parents, children, even their dogs—is brutally slaughtered, a bloody message left on the wall. Lucas Davenport suspects cartel retribution, drawing DEA agents, Mexican investigators, and independent killers into a terrifying collision in his own backyard.

A trio of armed young drifters embarks on a killing spree across rural Minnesota, robbing and murdering almost at random. Virgil Flowers has to read their twisted loyalties and get ahead of their next move before the body count along the back roads explodes.

After bombs rip through a small Minnesota town that’s fighting over the arrival of a big-box store, Virgil Flowers is sent to keep the peace. The bomber’s campaign escalates from property damage to targeted killing, forcing Virgil to sift through activists, executives, and long-simmering grudges.

Demolition at a Minneapolis construction site uncovers the long-hidden bodies of two girls abducted in 1985—a case a young Lucas Davenport once worked and never solved. Given a second chance, he reopens the investigation and discovers that the truth was buried along with them.

A crew of thieves botches a robbery at a hospital pharmacy and crosses paths with surgeon Weather Karkinnen—Lucas Davenport’s wife. When the criminals decide the only safe move is to eliminate the witness, Lucas must protect his family while dismantling a deadly conspiracy.

A teenage boy kills a local man in what looks like a simple farm dispute, but Virgil Flowers quickly suspects something far darker. His investigation into a small-town church uncovers generations of abuse and a tight-lipped congregation that will do anything to protect its secrets.

During a major political convention in St. Paul, Lucas Davenport juggles two threats: a crew planning to rob big-money delegates and a vengeful paraplegic criminal who blames Lucas for ruining his life. With the city on edge, any misstep could turn into disaster.

While fishing in northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers is pulled off the lake when a woman is shot at an upscale resort that caters mainly to women. Digging into the victim’s tangled romantic history and business feuds, he finds motives scattered across the shoreline.

Asked as a favor to look into the disappearance of a wealthy woman’s Goth daughter, Lucas Davenport stumbles into a subculture of games, drugs, and secrets. When Goths begin turning up dead, he realizes a patient, unseen killer has been watching all along.

Virgil Flowers is called when bodies begin turning up at Minnesota veterans’ memorials, each shot twice in the head and left with a lemon in the mouth. The strange staging pulls him into a web of old crimes, covert operations, and people willing to kill to stay hidden.

Two elderly women are beaten to death in an upscale Minneapolis home, apparently victims of a botched robbery. Lucas Davenport isn’t convinced. Following faint financial and antique-trade clues, he uncovers careful predators who think their age and wealth make them untouchable.

In his first solo outing, Virgil Flowers is sent to Bluestem, Minnesota, where an influential businessman dies in a suspicious house fire and a local doctor and his wife have already been murdered. Virgil’s laid-back style masks a relentless hunt through decades of buried grudges.

Former senator Lincoln Bowe has vanished, and Washington fears a political kidnapping could explode into national crisis. Political fixer Jacob Winter is tasked with finding the truth and soon uncovers ruthless operators who see democracy itself as something they can game—or break.

A young woman is found tortured and displayed along a Minneapolis riverbank, followed by a similarly posed male victim. Lucas Davenport suspects a recently released inmate, but as the killings escalate, he fears the monster he’s chasing may not be working alone.

When a Russian visitor is shot with decades-old bullets on the Duluth docks, Lucas Davenport teams up with a mysterious officer sent from Moscow. Their search for answers uncovers a long-buried family spy ring and Cold War secrets that refuse to stay dead.

When a fellow hacker is found murdered and his laptop full of explosive secrets goes missing, Kidd knows the wrong buyer could topple governments or ruin lives. With LuEllen, he launches a high-stakes search through online underworlds and real-world killers to retrieve it.

Now a troubleshooter for Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Lucas Davenport is sent to a small town where a man and woman have been lynched from a tree. The brutal double murder exposes racial tension, political fear, and a conspiracy far bigger than it first appears.

Years after nearly killing Lucas Davenport, elite assassin Clara Rinker is living quietly in Mexico—until a sniper murders her cartel-connected lover. On the run from mobsters and federal agents, she becomes both hunter and hunted, drawing Lucas into a deadly rematch.

An art professor with a secret stash of voyeuristic drawings starts turning his fantasies into murder. Lucas Davenport takes the case, only to realize the killer is learning fast, refining his methods with each victim and building toward something even worse.

Kidd learns a fellow hacker has been killed after probing the wrong corporate network—and the FBI is suddenly interested in him. To clear his name, he and LuEllen must pick apart a deadly tangle of stolen source code, financial sabotage, and ruthless federal agents.

A glamorous model is found strangled after a wild party, and one of Lucas Davenport’s own officers becomes a suspect. As more bodies turn up around the Twin Cities celebrity scene, Lucas has to untangle fashion-world rivalries, drugs, and obsession to catch a predator.

Clara Rinker is a charming professional hit woman whose latest job for an ambitious defense attorney should be simple—until a witness survives. Lucas Davenport, hunting a killer who knows his weak spots, finds himself up against two ruthless minds working in tandem.

A powerful executive is shot during a hunting trip, and every man in his party has a motive. Lucas Davenport’s search for the shooter uncovers decades of buried crimes, a twisted domestic history, and a killer hiding behind a façade of respectability.

Anna Batory runs a freelance TV news crew that prowls Los Angeles from dusk to dawn, selling footage of crime scenes and disasters. After a suicidal jumper and the murder of a cameraman, Anna realizes someone is using her night world as cover for a very personal hunt.

When a violent credit-union robbery ends with outlaw Candy LaChaise shot dead by Lucas Davenport’s team, her husband and his partners swear revenge on the cops’ families. As loved ones are targeted one by one, Lucas must stop a personal war he helped ignite.

A respected psychiatrist and her two young daughters are kidnapped in broad daylight. As the abductor taunts Lucas Davenport with phone calls and puzzles, Lucas races to decode his moves before the captive family’s nightmare turns permanently fatal.

A state investigator notices a pattern in two brutal murders that others want to ignore. Newly made deputy chief in Minneapolis, Lucas Davenport takes the case and hunts a chameleonlike killer who seems to move through the city without leaving a trace.

Hoping for a quiet stay at his Wisconsin cabin, Lucas Davenport is drawn into a horrifying case when a rural family is slaughtered and their house burned. Tracking a new kind of killer through deep snow, he discovers older crimes hidden beneath the surface.

After a sadistic pathologist he once caught escapes custody and resumes killing in New York, Lucas Davenport is called in to help the NYPD. Hunting the killer, he also uncovers a shadowy band of vigilante cops who may be just as dangerous.

When a Black activist in a corrupt Mississippi river town wants the entire city government taken down, she turns to Kidd. With LuEllen and a small crew, he uses hacking, fraud, and quiet theft to topple officials who’ve been looting the place for years.

When a surgeon’s wife is found savagely mutilated, Lucas Davenport chases two predators: a scarred actor and a brilliant but unhinged pathologist obsessed with death. The investigation forces Lucas to confront his own limits as the body count climbs.

A string of ritual throat-slashing murders, from a slumlord to a rising politician, leads Lucas Davenport into the world of Native activism and a terrifying enforcer known as Shadow Love, while his affair with visiting cop Lily Rothenburg raises the stakes.

Artist, hacker, and professional criminal Kidd is hired to sabotage a rival defense contractor’s computer systems. Working with fearless burglar LuEllen, he dives into corporate espionage where one bad assumption could leave them framed, dead, or both.

A calculating killer in Minneapolis treats murder as a game, following a set of strict personal rules to stalk and murder women. Detective Lucas Davenport, a cop who also designs video games, must outthink him move for move before he kills again.

Written with surgeon Bruce Cunningham, this nonfiction book explains how modern plastic surgery works in real patients’ lives. It walks readers through common cosmetic and reconstructive procedures, discussing risks, costs, and the emotional stakes behind choosing to change a body.

This nonfiction book pairs John Camp’s essays with lush reproductions of watercolorist John Stuart Ingle’s still lifes. Camp explores how Ingle’s painstaking technique turns everyday objects—fruit, knives, tabletops—into luminous studies of light, color, and attention.