Buried Prey by John Sandford 390 pages

Old houses are being torn down to make way for a new development when the bodies of two young girls are found under the concrete floor of a basement. Lucas Davenport arrives and discovers that the bodies are those of girls gone missing twenty years before. The missing case was one of the first Lucas was assigned to as a detective and the fact that neither the girls nor their killer was found had always bothered Lucas. The case belongs to the Milwaukee PD but Lucas gathers his team from the State Behavioral Unit and begins to follow the leads left years before. Lucas has much more experience investigating murder and is able to look at the crime from a distance giving it perspective that was not present when the girls first went missing. As usual, “watching” Lucas and his team sift through the evidence, listen to what witness say or leave unsaid and “hearing” him churn all of the information to give him a focus is stimulating. One feels the frustration of leads that go in the wrong direction and the interest as some information sparks and understanding. Buried Prey is another in the long list of entertaining stories about a team of law enforcement officers that are dedicated and walk the thin line between legal and criminal acts in order to find the criminals.