Catherine, who grew up on a horse ranch in Cameron County Texas, wrote her first two novels (fifteen pages each) when she was fourteen. Catherine’s grandmother, who died at the young age of 37, was also a writer. Her father was a painter and singer, and her mother is a retired concert pianist. After earning(…)
Naked Prey
Book Number 14 in the Lucas Davenport Series.
Lucas Davenport’s old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special trouble-shooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. Of course, Lucas is married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him; he doesn’t mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. If there’s one thing Lucas Davenport knows, it’s that for every bit of peace you get, you have to pay – and he’s waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree, in the woods of northern Minnesota.
What makes it particularly sensitive is that the bodies are those of a black man and a white woman, and they’re naked. ‘Lynching’ is the word that everybody’s trying not to say – but, as Lucas begins to discover, the murders are not, in fact, what they appear to be. Neither are they the end of it. There is worse to come – much, much worse…
