Ocean Prey by John Sandford is the 31st book in the Prey series, where fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case. The first official Lucas Davenport/Virgil Flowers crossover novel finds our two heroes only too happy to escape the Minnesota cold for the Florida heat—even if it is…
Lucas Davenport confronts an old nemesis, now a powerful U.S. senator, in Twisted Prey, the 28th novel in John Sandford’s Prey series. John Sandford is one of those writers whose fertile imagination produces quality mysteries and thrillers so consistently that the rest of us of us mere mortals can only stand and gawp. In this 28th…
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, we're enjoying a trip to the past thanks to Michael Cannel's new true crime thriller and William Christie's riveting…
Mark Harmon is back. Everyone loves the tough-as-nails silver fox who plays Jethro Gibbs on CBS’s NCIS. Can you believe the show just entered its 10th season? Well, actually it’s not so surprising with a great cast headed by Harmon and a story line that manages to make you laugh and still keeps you on…
Stolen Prey by John Sandford is the 22nd book of the Prey series, an edgy police procedural featuring Lucas Davenport (available May 15, 2012). Is it just me, or has Lucas Davenport lost a little something off his fastball? In Stolen Prey, 22nd in John Sandford’s Prey series, Lucas has to puzzle out the connections…
Here on Criminal Element there’s been talk about horrific casting decisions (Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher) and ones that make you go “hmm” (Jason Statham as Richard Stark’s Parker), but there’s also another class of casting decisions that gets less notice, those that just absolutely work. In fact, this post was inspired by one of…
When I first heard that USA Network was making a movie of Certain Prey, the tenth of John Sandford’s Prey novels, with Mark Harmon taking the role of Lucas Davenport, I wasn’t’t sure what to think. Sure, I love Harmon as Gibbs. And even as Ted Bundy. But Lucas Davenport? And could any TV movie…
There’s been conversation, there’s been controversy, there’ve been comments, all on the question of whether Mark Harmon can actually pull off the role of Lucas Davenport, John Sandford’s anti-heroic hero of the Prey series. (Check out the previous posts in this series.) He can do suave and confident, no question about that—Gibbs is plenty smooth…
As we’ve mentioned more than once (because, hey, we’re serious John Sandford fans and we’re excited), this Sunday night, USA will be airing Certain Prey, starring Mark Harmon as Lucas Davenport. As things have developed, we here at Crime HQ are going to have a chance to talk to Harmon, the new Lucas Davenport and…
Great news for fans of Mark Harmon. He’s set to play the lead in John Sandford’s Certain Prey movie on USA. The movie will air for the first time Sunday, November 6 at 9pm. No word as yet from USA about whether there will be more Prey movies, but one assumes that if this one…
