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Flowers is the only published author in the series, although Davenport is a game designer, which is similar in some ways.
Most Writers Are Writers: Largely averted.Some characters display the trope, and others play up to it to mess with out of state visitors. Mama Bear: Happens often, but a notable example is in Golden Prey, where the drug cartel kidnaps the mother of a man they're chasing (in an Evil Versus Evil 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).
Man of the City: Silent Prey features a Killer Cop who passionately argues that he can make Manhattan about twenty times safer by killing a hundred people (repeat offenders, a particularly successful criminal defense attorney, etc.). Little Miss Badass: Lucas's future foster daughter Letty is introduced as a young kid who does her own hunting for sustenance and survives an attack on her life. Line-of-Sight Name: A major character in the Davenport novels is named Del Capslock. Last-Name Basis: Detective Sloan from the Davenport series. Jurisdiction Friction: In their BCA days, both Davenport and Flowers occasionally encounter this, with Mad River being the worst case. #RULES OF PREY BOOK USED SERIES#
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every volume of the Davenport series has the word Prey in it the volumes of the Kidd series have Tarot Motifs in their titles.Then he calls the man's last place of business for information and finds out the guy is still working there and the man he's met is an imposter. Identity Impersonator: In Broken Prey, Lucas has a suspect there's a very strong case against, but who seems to be above reproach.Evil Matriarch: Margery Singleton in Naked Prey, who is the one driving her son and the others to commit the kidnappings and murders of wealthy children, murders her son's Morality Pet when she walks in at the wrong time, and is even prepared to set her son up to be killed by the police with no remorse or hesitation in a failed attempt to cover her tracks.Deadpan Snarker: Almost everyone, but particularly notable in the Kidd books, which are narrated by Kidd in first person.The daughter of another perpetrator, despite being Conditioned to Accept Horror, is happy to confirm the detectives' suspicions and direct them to evidence as soon as they question her.
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When Flowers and his men go to arrest the cult leader, they find him being held at gunpoint and subjected to a mock trial by his daughter and granddaughters, now that his men are all dead, arrested, or on the run.
Cult Defector: Bad Blood features a Religion of Evil with a generations-old culture centered around pedophilia and incest. Cowboy Cop: Lucas Davenport starts off as one of these, but after a few books, a combination of Deconstruction and Character Development starts to broaden him out. Continuity Drift: In one of the more recent Davenport novels, which is mostly a prequel, Sloan'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 Last-Name Basis used earlier in the books. especially bad musicians Im simply trying to provide a sense of the true excitement of the place." John Sandford: "By picturing Canada as a land of lowlifes, dopers, gunmen, sexual deviants, desperate men, violent women, bad musicians, etc. And as shown in the next book, Bowden still isn't elected president, being defeated by the Republican candidate, making everything that Purdy did utterly pointless. Purdy's actions just kill more than twenty innocent people, along with Purdy and her younger son/accomplice, and make Bowden immensely popular due to her and Henderson behaving heroically in the aftermath of an attempted bombing. 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. 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. In Phantom Prey, Alyssa is killing the people who suspects of her daughter's death due to their lifestyle choices, only to find out all of them were innocent and the real killer is someone she never suspected who the police arrest before she can even consider revenge. The Virgil Flowers Series featuring Virgil Flowers
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