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The latest John Sandford Lucas Davenport novel "Silken Prey" wasn't one of my favourites of the ongoing Prey series which is otherwise one of the most reliable that I know. I don't want to create any spoilers so I'm just going to bullet-point the areas that were a letdown.
- Davenport wasn't enough of the central force of the plot. This was mostly because:
- The case has Davenport recruiting Sandford's otherwise abandoned series characters Kidd & Luellen (the last book in their series was 2003's The Hanged Man's Song) and the normally sharp Davenport seems clueless as to who he's dealing with.
- Key case points and plot turns mostly come from the Kidd & Luellen antics and not from anything clever that Davenport does or observes.
- Virgil Flowers makes his usual cameo appearance but there is hardly any of the regular Davenport-Flowers banter that I enjoy.
- I'm not a fan of the Weather the Doctor and the Letty the Kid Reporter subplots, but the Davenport family angle was almost completely missing this time, and I did miss that lack of a human interest side to the book.
- The final resolution is completely unsatisfying. Can't really say more about that.
This was still 3 stars, which Goodreads describes as a "Like", but it just wasn't in the usual 4-5 stars Sandford / Davenport area for me.