Order of John Sandford Books
John Sandford is an American novelist who is best known for his excellent Prey series, along with the popular Kidd and Virgil Flowers series. In addition to these book series, he has written a couple of standalone novels as well.
John Sandford is not only a best-selling author, but he is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist under his real name of John Roswell Camp. Although his books are usually published under the Sandford pseudonym, he has been published under the name John Camp as well earlier in his career. Below is a list of John Sandford’s novels in order of when they were published:
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Publication Order of Prey/Lucas Davenport Books
Publication Order of Lucas Davenport vs. Lincoln Rhyme Short Stories/Novellas
| Rhymes With Prey: Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Letty Davenport Books
| The Investigator | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark Angel | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Toxic Prey | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Kidd & LuEllen Books
| The Fool's Run | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Empress File | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Devil's Code | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hanged Man's Song | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Virgil Flowers Books
| Dark of the Moon | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heat Lightning | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rough Country | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bad Blood | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shock Wave | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mad River | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Storm Front | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deadline | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Escape Clause | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deep Freeze | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Holy Ghost | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bloody Genius | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ocean Prey | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Righteous Prey | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Judgment Prey | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Singular Menace Books
(with Michele Cook)
| Uncaged | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Outrage | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rampage | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Night Crew | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead Watch | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Saturn Run | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The MatchUp Collection Books
| Honor & ... | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Deserves to Be Dead | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Getaway | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Midnight Flame | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Short Story | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Past Prologue | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Faking a Murderer | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Dig Here | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Taking the Veil | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Rambo on Their Minds | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Footloose | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Prey Universe Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Notes: The Singular Menace series is written with Michele Cook. Rhymes with Prey is a short story written with Jeffery Deaver (co-starring Lincoln Rhyme) that originally appeared in the anthology FaceOff. The standalone novel Saturn Run was co-authored by Ctein. Non-fiction is written as John Camp.
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John Sandford Synopses: In Silent Prey (book 4 of the Prey series), An old nemesis of Lt. Davenport’s has broken out of jail (and rather easily too). As bodies keep piling up, Davenport must come to Manhattan in order to assist with the investigation. Also, Davenport goes undercover in order to help nab a vigilante gang responsible for the death of a cop as well as many others.
In Dead Watch, John Winter is selected to investigate the death of a former Republican senator, who had a notable enemy in the governor of Virginia. Was Governor Goodman responsible for his rival’s murder or is it all a set up in order to shoot down the governor’s hopes of becoming president?
Loving John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers, I was disappointed with the ending of “Lethal Prey”. Having to wait a year, is frustrating. Had I known this, I would have waited for the next one and then read them both together.
All time favorite author period. Inventive plots which are believable. Characters are real living, breathing, evolving, and favorite reading again. Lucas is the main, but only one of my favorite literary characters. Not repetitive plots or filler pages and maintains high level of interest through out entire book. Have re-read all of his books many times (have collection) especially after series of disappointing authors. Always find something new and wondering how in the world Sanford thought of that. Especially his insight into his women characters. Married almost 6o years (widowed once) and still learning/appreciating something new about women from Davenport’s Weather, Marcy and Letty. Like a good friend telling you a great story.
The Lucas Davenport series of novels is terrific as is his series of Virgil Flowers books, so engaging, they really grab hold of you and the well-placed humor is the icing on the cake.
WHY are none of the books made into movies or series?
A couple of them were adapted. Certain Pray in 2011 as a TV movie, Mind Prey in 1999 as a TV movie.
I was never much of a reader.My mother in law has a lot of books yours being some of them.One day I picked up a prey book,now I’m on # 19 of prey series. Love them.I found reading to be relaxing.Now I’m in barnesnnoble all the time.Thank you John sanford to opening my eyes to the joy of reading.
I got hooked on John Sandford from listening to ”
Night Prey” while stuck in traffic for hours. I have
been a loyal fan ever since.
keep writing,
John motto
All I can say is that if you are not reading Mr. Sanford’s books, you are missing out.
All of Lucas Davenport Series are awesome, I’ve been following the Prey series since the beginning thanks to my brother Virgil and of course we had to keep up with “Virgil Flowers” too! Now the newest series “Uncaged” “Outraged” and “Rampage” who doesn’t want to know what’s going to happen with Shay?
I just love Lucas Davenport but,more importantly,I love the way Sandford developed Virgil Flowers as a “minor” character into a MAJOR character & I now enjoy reading Flowers’ books more than Lucas….
Do the Kidd novels need to be read in order?
Yes, but just imo they aren’t as good as the “Prey” books or the Virgil Flowers books.
I don’t understand about books that aren’t approved, and can’t be published, why.
John Sandford is my favorite author! His books are so well written and his characters are always interesting. Especially Lucas Davenport and now, Virgil Flowers. I recommend reading the Prey series in order as Lucas Davenport’ s life continues in each one. Of course, some are better then others but they are all worth reading. John Sandford gets five stars from me and if I could give him a hundred-I would!
John Sandford is, in my opinion, the best detective/murder-mystery/ novelist of all time. If you read one of his books in the Prey series, I can just about guarantee you will read them all. Fantastic books with witty dialogue and flowing, easy to read prose make these books hard to put down. It is interesting to see how his characters develop and change throughout the series; and after reading a few of his Prey novels, you really come to care about the characters and want to know how their lives might come to change in the next book of the series. Some of his Prey novels are naturally better than others, but every single one of them will leave you satisfied with the book itself and hungry to read more.