Lucas Davenport Books in Order

A calculating killer in Minneapolis treats murder as a game, following a set of strict personal rules to stalk and murder women. Detective Lucas Davenport, a cop who also designs video games, must outthink him move for move before he kills again.

A string of ritual throat-slashing murders, from a slumlord to a rising politician, leads Lucas Davenport into the world of Native activism and a terrifying enforcer known as Shadow Love, while his affair with visiting cop Lily Rothenburg raises the stakes.

When a surgeon’s wife is found savagely mutilated, Lucas Davenport chases two predators: a scarred actor and a brilliant but unhinged pathologist obsessed with death. The investigation forces Lucas to confront his own limits as the body count climbs.

After a sadistic pathologist he once caught escapes custody and resumes killing in New York, Lucas Davenport is called in to help the NYPD. Hunting the killer, he also uncovers a shadowy band of vigilante cops who may be just as dangerous.

Hoping for a quiet stay at his Wisconsin cabin, Lucas Davenport is drawn into a horrifying case when a rural family is slaughtered and their house burned. Tracking a new kind of killer through deep snow, he discovers older crimes hidden beneath the surface.

A state investigator notices a pattern in two brutal murders that others want to ignore. Newly made deputy chief in Minneapolis, Lucas Davenport takes the case and hunts a chameleonlike killer who seems to move through the city without leaving a trace.

A respected psychiatrist and her two young daughters are kidnapped in broad daylight. As the abductor taunts Lucas Davenport with phone calls and puzzles, Lucas races to decode his moves before the captive family’s nightmare turns permanently fatal.

When a violent credit-union robbery ends with outlaw Candy LaChaise shot dead by Lucas Davenport’s team, her husband and his partners swear revenge on the cops’ families. As loved ones are targeted one by one, Lucas must stop a personal war he helped ignite.

A powerful executive is shot during a hunting trip, and every man in his party has a motive. Lucas Davenport’s search for the shooter uncovers decades of buried crimes, a twisted domestic history, and a killer hiding behind a façade of respectability.

Clara Rinker is a charming professional hit woman whose latest job for an ambitious defense attorney should be simple—until a witness survives. Lucas Davenport, hunting a killer who knows his weak spots, finds himself up against two ruthless minds working in tandem.

A glamorous model is found strangled after a wild party, and one of Lucas Davenport’s own officers becomes a suspect. As more bodies turn up around the Twin Cities celebrity scene, Lucas has to untangle fashion-world rivalries, drugs, and obsession to catch a predator.

An art professor with a secret stash of voyeuristic drawings starts turning his fantasies into murder. Lucas Davenport takes the case, only to realize the killer is learning fast, refining his methods with each victim and building toward something even worse.

Years after nearly killing Lucas Davenport, elite assassin Clara Rinker is living quietly in Mexico—until a sniper murders her cartel-connected lover. On the run from mobsters and federal agents, she becomes both hunter and hunted, drawing Lucas into a deadly rematch.

Now a troubleshooter for Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Lucas Davenport is sent to a small town where a man and woman have been lynched from a tree. The brutal double murder exposes racial tension, political fear, and a conspiracy far bigger than it first appears.

When a Russian visitor is shot with decades-old bullets on the Duluth docks, Lucas Davenport teams up with a mysterious officer sent from Moscow. Their search for answers uncovers a long-buried family spy ring and Cold War secrets that refuse to stay dead.

A young woman is found tortured and displayed along a Minneapolis riverbank, followed by a similarly posed male victim. Lucas Davenport suspects a recently released inmate, but as the killings escalate, he fears the monster he’s chasing may not be working alone.

Two elderly women are beaten to death in an upscale Minneapolis home, apparently victims of a botched robbery. Lucas Davenport isn’t convinced. Following faint financial and antique-trade clues, he uncovers careful predators who think their age and wealth make them untouchable.

Asked as a favor to look into the disappearance of a wealthy woman’s Goth daughter, Lucas Davenport stumbles into a subculture of games, drugs, and secrets. When Goths begin turning up dead, he realizes a patient, unseen killer has been watching all along.

During a major political convention in St. Paul, Lucas Davenport juggles two threats: a crew planning to rob big-money delegates and a vengeful paraplegic criminal who blames Lucas for ruining his life. With the city on edge, any misstep could turn into disaster.

A crew of thieves botches a robbery at a hospital pharmacy and crosses paths with surgeon Weather Karkinnen—Lucas Davenport’s wife. When the criminals decide the only safe move is to eliminate the witness, Lucas must protect his family while dismantling a deadly conspiracy.

Demolition at a Minneapolis construction site uncovers the long-hidden bodies of two girls abducted in 1985—a case a young Lucas Davenport once worked and never solved. Given a second chance, he reopens the investigation and discovers that the truth was buried along with them.

In a wealthy Minnesota suburb, an entire family—parents, children, even their dogs—is brutally slaughtered, a bloody message left on the wall. Lucas Davenport suspects cartel retribution, drawing DEA agents, Mexican investigators, and independent killers into a terrifying collision in his own backyard.

A smear campaign involving child pornography detonates in a heated Senate race, and a political fixer vanishes soon after. Lucas Davenport follows the trail to a relentlessly ambitious candidate and her ruthless inner circle, where murder and dirty tricks blur into each other.

A teenager smells something wrong in a Minnesota cornfield and discovers a cistern packed with bodies—victims killed over many summers and left to rot underground. Lucas Davenport digs into the cold trail of a patient serial killer who’s been hiding in plain sight.

In this crossover novella from the anthology *FaceOff*, Lincoln Rhyme and Minnesota detective Lucas Davenport team up when a case spans New York and the Midwest. Combining Rhyme’s forensic brilliance with Davenport’s on‑the‑ground instincts, they hunt a predator neither man could easily stop alone.

Lucas Davenport’s adopted daughter Letty calls him after a young traveler friend vanishes while following a dangerous drifter known only as Pilate. The search drags Lucas into a roving community of street kids, cultish followers, and a murderous gang that treats the highways as hunting grounds.

No longer with the BCA, Lucas Davenport joins the staff of Minnesota’s governor during a presidential campaign. On the trail he discovers a pair of extremists convinced the governor must die to save the country, and he has to stop them without derailing the race.

Now a U.S. marshal who can pick his own cases, Lucas Davenport goes after a legendary stickup man who robbed a cartel counting house and left a child dead. As cartel enforcers close in, Lucas races brutal professionals willing to butcher anyone in their way.

A suspicious crash in Washington, D.C., points Lucas Davenport back to Taryn Grant, a billionaire psychopath he once failed to nail who is now a U.S. senator. Working as a marshal, he probes a circle of hired killers and political power that won’t hesitate to kill him too.

Chasing a low-level enforcer who skipped bail, U.S. marshal Lucas Davenport discovers the man has been burying victims in a Louisiana swamp and may have turned cannibal. The pursuit drags Lucas across the country as the fugitive joins a violent robbery crew out West.

When the teenage children of prominent politicians discover their photos on a hate-filled extremist website, Washington turns to Lucas Davenport. With no obvious crime yet committed, Lucas has to trace anonymous agitators through fringe groups before ugly rhetoric turns into real bloodshed.

After three Coast Guardsmen are murdered investigating a suspicious dive boat off Florida, the stalled case lands on Lucas Davenport’s desk. He teams up with Virgil Flowers, going undercover around a dangerous offshore drug operation where the evidence lies a hundred feet below the surface.

A secretive group calling itself The Five announces online that it will murder people who “need to be murdered” and then donates cryptocurrency to charity after each kill. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to track the bored, ultra-wealthy vigilantes before the killings spiral.

A federal judge and his two young sons are gunned down at home, a crime that shocks St. Paul. With local police and the FBI stymied, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are brought in to sort through political enemies, charitable dealings, and a grieving widow who may know more than she says.

Epidemiologist Lionel Scott believes humanity is killing the planet—and disappears after developing a terrifying new virus. Letty Davenport is tasked with tracking him down and pulls her father, Lucas, into a global manhunt where eco-terrorism and bioweapons research collide.

Two decades after an accountant was found stabbed and dumped in a St. Paul park, her twin sister offers a massive reward on true-crime sites to finally catch the killer. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers re-open the cold case, only to find a murderer who’s been hiding in plain sight.

A high-ranking Russian defector and his family are moved into witness protection near Minneapolis, with Lucas Davenport assigned to help receive them. When a professional hit team tracks the convoy, Lucas must uncover the leak and stop the assassins before they finish the job.