John Sandford

John Sandford (born February 23, 1944 in Cedar Rapids , Iowa ) is the pseudonym of the American writer John Roswell Camp .

biography

Camp suspended his history studies to do his military service in Korea and then resumed. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Journalism and worked from 1970 to 1978 for the Miami Herald Tribune. There he worked with Carl Hiaasen and Edna Buchanan, who are now also known as thriller authors .

In 1980 he changed jobs and began writing for St. Paul Pioneer Press. That same year he was first nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on Native American culture , and eventually won it in 1986 for a series of articles on the life of a modern farming family.

After nine years he ended his engagement with the Pioneer Press in 1989 and at the same time published his first two crime novels "Rules of Prey" (German title: "School of Death") and "The Fool's Run" ("Die Spur des Fren"). Since then, 19 more crime novels have appeared.

In 16 of his novels the main character is the police officer Lucas Davenport, who has to solve difficult cases in and around Minneapolis and St. Paul (the so-called Twin Cities ). The English titles of this series are remarkable, all of which contain the word “Prey” (German: “Sacrifice”, “Beute”) . There is also a loose series of four books in total about the thief LuEllen and the computer professional Kidd.

After a divorce, John Camp is remarried to his wife and lives near Minneapolis. He is now working on other novels with his son.

Awards

• 2011 International Thriller Award - Best Novel category from The International Thriller Writers Inc. (ITW) for Bad Blood .

Works by John Sandford

Lucas Davenport series

• 1989: Rules of Prey. ( School of Death. ISBN 3-570-06818-8 ).
• 1990: Shadow Prey. ( The Indian shadow. ISBN 3-442-41504-7 ).
• 1991: Eyes of Prey. ( Blind mirrors. ISBN 3-442-41352-4 ).
• 1992: Silent Prey. ( Silent victims. ISBN 3-442-55330-X ).
• 1993: Winter Prey. ( Eisnacht. ISBN 3-442-45669-X ) (also published under the title The Iceman ).
• 1994: Night Prey. ( The knife in the shade. ISBN 3-442-43398-3 ).
• 1995: Mind Prey. ( Bad game. ISBN 3-442-43429-7 ).
• 1996: Sudden Prey. ( Cold Vengeance. ISBN 3-442-55477-2 ).
• 1998: Secret Prey. ( Die Jagdpartie. ISBN 3-442-55457-8 ).
• 1999: Certain Prey. ( The trace of fear. ISBN 3-442-55401-2 ).
• 2000: Easy Prey. ( Night blind. ISBN 3-442-46082-4 ).
• 2001: Chosen Prey. ( Deadly look. ISBN 3-442-45275-9 ).
• 2002: Mortal Prey. ( Fatal Wedding. ISBN 3-442-45322-4 ).
• 2003: Naked Prey. ( The naked victim. ISBN 3-442-45645-2 ).
• 2004: Hidden Prey. ( Cold sleep. ISBN 3-442-45795-5 ).
• 2005: Broken Prey. ( Cold fever. ISBN 3-442-46174-X ).
• 2007: Invisible Prey. ( Mordlust. ISBN 978-3-442-20336-9 ).
• 2008: Phantom Prey. ( In the wake of evil. ISBN 978-3-442-47297-0 ).
• 2009: Wicked Prey. ( Greed for death. ISBN 978-0-399-15567-3 ).
• 2010: Storm Prey. ( Mordrausch. ISBN 978-3-442-47555-1 ).
• 2011: Buried Prey. ISBN 978-1-4104-3610-8 . ( Zorn. ISBN 978-3-442-47872-9 ).
• 2012: Stolen Prey. ISBN 0-399-15768-9
• 2013: Silken Prey. ISBN 0-399-15931-2

Virgil Flowers (spin-off of the Davenport series)

• 2007: Dark of the Moon. ( Blind hatred. ISBN 978-3-442-46856-0 ).
• 2008: Heat Lightning. ( Bloody Vengeance. ISBN 978-3-442-47061-7 ).
• 2009: Rough Country. ( Bitter atonement. ISBN 978-3-442-47525-4 ).
• 2010: Bad Blood. ( Bloody Saat. ISBN 978-3-442-47526-1 ).
• 2011: Shock Wave. ( ISBN 978-0-399-15769-1 ).
• 2012: Mad River. ( ISBN 978-0-399-15770-7 ).
• 2013: Storm Front. ( ISBN 978-0-399-15930-5 ).
• 2014: deadline. ( ISBN 978-0-399-16237-4 ).

LuEllen-and-Kidd-series

• 1989: The Fool's Run. ( Trail of fools. )
• 1991: The Empress File. ( Queen of the Night. )
• 2000: The Devil's Code. ( Deadly web. )
• 2003: The Hanged Man's Song. ( Death game. )

Other publications

• 1988: The Eye of the Heart.
• 1989: Plastic Surgery.
• 1997: The Night Crew. ( Last shoot. )
• 2006: Dead Watch. ( Lamentation for the dead. ISBN 3-442-46399-8 ).
• 2006: Murder in the Rough.
• 2015 John Sandford and Ctein : Saturn Run. ( The object ISBN 978-3-492-28130-0 ).

Web links

• John Sandford official website
• Literature by and about John Sandford in the catalog of the German National Library
• LCCN  n88-201495 (pen name John Sandford)