History Creator / JohnSandford

* CanadaEh: Virgil, as a Minnesotan, has less than kind words to say about his Northern neighbor. As [[http://www.thebigthrill.org/2012/09/between-the-lines-interview-with-john-sandford-by-brett-king/ John Sandford said about Canada's treatment in the novels]]:
--> '''John Sandford''': "By picturing Canada as a land of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lowlifes, dopers, gunmen, sexual deviants, desperate men, violent women, bad musicians, etc. – especially bad musicians]] -- I'm simply trying to provide a sense of the true excitement of the place."

* ContinuityDrift: In one of the more recent Davenport novels, which is mostly a prequel, Sloane's first name is revealed, and it's made clear that Lucas has known it for the entire series, which does not give with the LastNameBasis used earlier in the books.

* MamaBear: Happens often, but a notable example is in ''Golden Prey'', where the drug cartel kidnaps the mother of a man their chasing (in an EvilVersusEvil conflict) and torture her for the names of other people close to him, and she deliberately withholds the name of her daughter and granddaughter (who live very close by).

* SequelNonEntity: ''Storm Prey'' features Marcy having remarried with a young son, yet in the very next book, ''Mortal Prey'' no mention at all is made of them [[spoiler:Despite Marcy's dying in that book]] and her inner monologue implies that there would be nothing to stop her for getting back together with Lucas if he and Weather ever divorced.

** In ''Extreme Prey'' Marlys Purdy schemes to murder presidential candidate Michaelea Bowden, due to distrusting her for poorly defined reasons and wanting Governor Henderson to be president instead. Henderson in the meantime has told Lucas that he probably ''couldn't'' be selected as the presidential candidate and is hoping to be picked as Bowden's vice-president. Purdy's actions (which killing more than twenty innocent people, along with Purdy and her younger son/accomplice) just make Bowden immensely popular due to her and Henderson behaving heroically in the aftermath of an attempted bombing, and as shown in the next book, Bowden ''still'' isn't elected president, being defeated by the Republican canidate, making ''everything'' that Purdy did utterly useless.
* AttentionWhore: The killer in [[spoiler:''Easy Prey'']], with Lucas exploiting this to get him to surrender (and not harm his hostage) in exchange for being interviewed by a couple of reporters first.

* IdentityImpersonator: In [[spoiler:''Broken Prey'']], Lucas has a suspect there's a very strong case against, but who seems to be above reproach. Then he calls the man's last place of business for information and fins out the guy is still working there and the man he's met is an imposter.

* RulesLawyer: Happens often. For instance in ''Broken Prey'', the assistant mental hospital administrator tells the imprisoned serial killers serving as the BigBadEnsemble (their apprentice is the one out killing while they take sadistic pleasure through the details of his crimes, meaning they aren't likely to be cooperative) that if they want a lawyer then Lucas questions them then they'll have to spend a few days in isolation to make sure they they don't; have any [[AssShove contraband in their bodies]].

* MamaBear: Happens often, but a notable example is in ''Golden Prey'', where the drug cartel kidnaps the mother of a man their chasing (in an EvilVsEvil conflict) and torture her for the names of other people close to him, and she deliberately withholds the name of her daughter and granddaughter (who live very close by).

John Sandford is the pen name of John Camp, Pullitzer-winning reporter, who decided to branch out into crime novels. Unusually, he had two debut novels, ''The Fool's Run'' featuring Kidd, a computer hacker, and ''Rules of Prey'' featuring Lucas Davenport, a hard-nosed detective. To avoid the gaffe of having two debut novels and to appease the two separate publishers he'd sold the stories to, he published ''Rules of Prey'' under a pen name of John Sandford and ''The Fool's Run'' under John Camp, his real name. Currently, all of his books are released under his pen name. He has a [[http://www.johnsandford.org/ website]] run by his son which includes a substantial amount of reference material on what went into individual stories and how they evolved.

--> '''John Sandford''': "By picturing Canada as a land of lowlifes, dopers, gunmen, sexual deviants, desperate men, violent women, bad musicians, etc. – especially bad musicians — I’m simply trying to provide a sense of the true excitement of the place."

* ContinuityDrift: In one of the more recent Davenport novels, which is mostly a prequel, Sloane's first name is revealed, and it's made clear that Lucas has known it for the entire series.

* Storm Front (forthcoming)

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every volume of the Davenport series has the word Prey in it; every volume of the Kidd series has a TarotMotif in its title.

!!'''The Prey Series'' featuring Lucas Davenport

* TheVerse: The Kidd, Davenport and Flowers novels all take place in the same universe.