The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 NY Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.

The night following the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Crimson Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky.

He’d picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an empty farmyard in the center of cornfields: nice, personal, and quiet. The only issue was . something smelled bad-like, actually bad. He talked about it to a region about Field of Prey deputy he understood, so when the cop had taken a look, he discovered a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another, and another.

By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to 15 bodies and counting. And as though that wasn’t poor more than enough, when Lucas started to check out, he made some troubling discoveries of his own. The victims have been killed over a great number of years, one every summer, regular as clockwork. How could this possess happened without anybody noticing?

Because one thing was for certain: The killer had to live near by. He was most likely even someone they saw every day. . . .