![]() ![]() Kresge shot? Because he has just bamboozled his wife into accepting an $8 million divorce settlement and is merging his 230 banks with a larger, a move that will net him $40 million after taxes? Yes, he’ll lose his job, as will nearly all the execs on the deer hunt, but that’s life. ![]() Before novel’s end, only two of the execs are left alive, which certainly cuts down on the suspects. ![]() Five bank-company executives are on a hunt on opening day of deer season when the company’s chairman takes a slug through the heart. Ironically, Davenport’s battle with depression turns out to be a help in the present case, when his disorder leads him to the Prozac clue that eventually solves a central group of murders. Sadly, the bloody violence of Davenport’s LaChaise case has cost him his fiancÇe, Weather Karkinnen-they’re both seeing a shrink about it. Unique for the series is Davenport’s bipolar disorder, with the gloom-ridden hero often on the verge of a total depressive breakdown, despite the heartening presence of fellow cop Sherrill, her statuesque figure drawing attention away from the chrome revolver in her shoulder holster. The cop ripostes herein are a brilliantly welcome routine and rival the richly characterized acid blackness of TV’s Homicide show. Deputy chief of Minneapolis PD Lucas Davenport returns for Sandford’s ninth outing in the well-received Prey procedurals (Sudden Prey, 1996, etc.). ![]()
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