Author guide
John Sandford Books in Order
John Sandford is the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp, an American journalist and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1986. His fiction includes the Lucas Davenport Prey novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, the Letty Davenport novels, the Kidd novels, the Singular Menace young-adult trilogy co-authored with Michele Cook, and the standalone science-fiction thriller Saturn Run co-authored with Ctein. He has also written the nonfiction books The Eye and the Heart: The Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.
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Start with one of these
Rules of Prey
The first Lucas Davenport novel and the beginning of the Prey series.
Dark of the Moon
The first Virgil Flowers novel.
The Investigator
The first Letty Davenport novel.
The Fool's Run
The first Kidd novel.
Uncaged
The first novel in the Singular Menace trilogy.
The Night Crew
A standalone thriller.
Saturn Run
A standalone science-fiction novel.
Read in order
Books by series
- 1 Rules of PreyAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 1989
- 2
Shadow PreyAmazon ↗Book 2 · novel · 1990
- 3
Eyes of PreyAmazon ↗Book 3 · novel · 1991
- 4
Silent PreyAmazon ↗Book 4 · novel · 1992
- 5
Winter PreyAmazon ↗Book 5 · novel · 1993
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Night PreyAmazon ↗Book 6 · novel · 1994
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Mind PreyAmazon ↗Book 7 · novel · 1995
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Sudden PreyAmazon ↗Book 8 · novel · 1996
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Secret PreyAmazon ↗Book 9 · novel · 1998
- 10
Certain PreyAmazon ↗Book 10 · novel · 1999
- 11
Easy PreyAmazon ↗Book 11 · novel · 2000
- 12
Chosen PreyAmazon ↗Book 12 · novel · 2001
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Mortal PreyAmazon ↗Book 13 · novel · 2002
- 14
Naked PreyAmazon ↗Book 14 · novel · 2003
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Broken PreyAmazon ↗Book 16 · novel · 2005
- 17
Invisible PreyAmazon ↗Book 17 · novel · 2007
- 18
Phantom PreyAmazon ↗Book 18 · novel · 2008
- 19
Wicked PreyAmazon ↗Book 19 · novel · 2009
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Storm PreyAmazon ↗Book 20 · novel · 2010
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Buried PreyAmazon ↗Book 21 · novel · 2011
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Stolen PreyAmazon ↗Book 22 · novel · 2012
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Silken PreyAmazon ↗Book 23 · novel · 2013
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Field of PreyAmazon ↗Book 24 · novel · 2014
- 25
Gathering PreyAmazon ↗Book 25 · novel · 2015
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Extreme PreyAmazon ↗Book 26 · novel · 2016
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Golden PreyAmazon ↗Book 27 · novel · 2017
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Twisted PreyAmazon ↗Book 28 · novel · 2018
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Neon PreyAmazon ↗Book 29 · novel · 2019
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Masked PreyAmazon ↗Book 30 · novel · 2020
- 31
Ocean PreyAmazon ↗Book 31 · novel · 2021
- 32
Righteous PreyAmazon ↗Book 32 · novel · 2022
- 33
Judgment PreyAmazon ↗Book 33 · novel · 2023
- 34
Toxic PreyAmazon ↗Book 34 · novel · 2024
- 35
Lethal PreyAmazon ↗Book 35 · novel · 2025
- 36 Revenge PreyAmazon ↗
Book 36 · novel · 2026
crime thriller series · ongoing
Virgil Flowers
The Virgil Flowers crime-thriller series, set within the broader Prey universe.
- 1 Dark of the MoonAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2007
- 2
Heat LightningAmazon ↗Book 2 · novel · 2008
- 3
Rough CountryAmazon ↗Book 3 · novel · 2009
- 4
Bad BloodAmazon ↗Book 4 · novel · 2010
- 5
Shock WaveAmazon ↗Book 5 · novel · 2011
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Mad RiverAmazon ↗Book 6 · novel · 2012
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Storm FrontAmazon ↗Book 7 · novel · 2013
- 8
DeadlineAmazon ↗Book 8 · novel · 2014
- 9
Escape ClauseAmazon ↗Book 9 · novel · 2016
- 10
Deep FreezeAmazon ↗Book 10 · novel · 2017
- 11
Holy GhostAmazon ↗Book 11 · novel · 2018
- 12
Bloody GeniusAmazon ↗Book 12 · novel · 2019
crime thriller series · ongoing
Letty Davenport
The Letty Davenport crime-thriller series, set within the broader Prey universe.
crime thriller series · complete
Kidd
The Kidd crime-thriller series about an artist, computer expert, and professional criminal.
young adult thriller trilogy · complete
Singular Menace
A young-adult thriller trilogy co-authored with Michele Cook.
Outside the series
