I listened to this book on my Creative Zen. The reader for this series is great. ( )

Whatever malady John Sanford suffered when he was writing his previous book was cured, solved, abolished, or exorcised, because "Chosen Prey" was a million miles away from that slumpy work and back to coherent, mature, and somewhat ethically challenged Lucas Davenport. The writing was just plain better. So thanks, 2001 John Sandford, for pulling your head out of the sand and writing a noble mystery/crime/thriller. Oooh.

Internet pornographic photography ring. Lucas and Weather reunite, because of pregnancy. ( )

This is the 13th in the prey series and the third I've reread in as many days. I liked it a lot. I liked the character of the villain, the depictions of rain and how impacted the crime scenes. I really felt for the uncle/small town cop character. I liked the way the crime was thought about. This interested me on many levels.
I do think that the fall out over Ellen's actions was too minimal, but that's my only quibble with the book.

It's the one with the art historian killing many small athletic blonds, and how they catch him. I really felt for his mother, the smart old bat, as the police referred to her. ( )

The 13th title in the Prey series (Easy Prey, etc.) has wealthy Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport in up to his Porsche-driving fingertips. Lucas is trying to track an elusive serial killer while reuniting with former fianc‚e Weather Karkinnen who after a couple of years' estrangement following her narrow escape from a crazy biker in one of Lucas's former cases has suddenly decided she wants to have his baby. Weather is a formidable distraction, but the killer revealed to readers from the beginning as James Qatar, a suave professor of art history with a yen for strangulation proves to require even more attention. Soon after the body of a young blonde is found in a partially excavated grave on a remote wilderness hillside, a deputy sheriff from backwater Wisconsin shows up with a file containing case histories of several women reported missing in Wisconsin and Minnesota over a nine-year period. Fearing the worst, Lucas orders the hillside surveyed; subsequent excavation uncovers seven more bodies. The art world connections of some of the victims and the discovery of pornographic drawings suggests a link to the art community around the local Catholic university. As the net tightens, the usually coolheaded Qatar, already plotting the fate of a daring fabric artist in cahoots with the police, gradually loses control. With Lucas and his team watching his every move, he eludes surveillance and carries out a final desperate attack. Sandford is in top form here, his wry humor and his development of Lucas's combative, affectionate relationship with Weather lighting up the dark of another grisly investigation.