Buried Prey / John Sandford / 390 pages

John Sandford writes another winning suspense novel featuring Lucas Davenport and his best buds in getting the bad guys, Del, Shrake & Jenkins. This time Lucas is haunted by an old case being dug up (literally). When the bodies of the two Jones girls are found, Lucas must go back to relive the resolution of his first case as an investigator and find the true killer. About half the book is the story of the disappearance of the Jones girls and how the case was mishandled. Lucas was never satisfied by how the case was closed and now must live with the anguish of how his letting the case go cost other lives. Sandford does an excellent job of building the case and describing how the real killer is "put down." In all of the Prey books we see inside the head of Lucas and live the case with him. Still a favorite series of mine; Sandford is still top notch.