Certain Prey by John SandfordMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is my first Sandford and it was pretty much just about ok. I was expecting a lot more given the fantastic average rating of above 4. The plot starts off with the murder of Barbara Allen, wife of a property dealer Hale Allen. The killer is a professional hit-woman Clara Rinker hired by a hot-shot criminal lawyer Carmel Loan. The plot gets murky with more mindless killings. The protagonist is a cop Lucas Davenport who is assigned the job of solving the crime. In fact, this is not a whodunnit but howdunnit as the cop tries to piece together evidence to tie in the suspects to the crime, often by means bordering on illegal.
Purely for the fact that the book is about how the cop crosses the line for trapping the suspects put me off. Moreover, I felt that too many coincidences, like finding the slug in the suspect's room, spoilt the joy of reading a thriller.
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