num_pages: 384
description: Have you met Carmel Loan?She's beautiful, intelligent, ambitious - and used to getting what she wants. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn't going to let a little thing like his being married get in the way. So, through the contacts of an ex-client, she hires professional killer Clara Rinker to get rid of his wife. Smart and attractive, Rinker is the best hitwoman in the business - but things go wrong; by an amazing coincidence there's a witness. It's the shooting of the witness, a cop, that brings Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport into the case.Loan and Rinker must work together to clean up the loose ends - which includes getting Davenport off their backs by whatever means necessary.
language: English
title: Certain Prey
titlecomplete: Certain Prey (Lucas Davenport, #10)
characters: Patricia Case, Rose Marie Roux, Chair Bob, Max Butry, Ernie and Ron Battaglia, Myron Bunnson, Sister Mary Joseph / Elle Kruger, Baily Dobbs, Officer Friendly, Louise Clark, O.J. (The Lincoln Lawyer), Barbara Allen, Heather (Certain Prey), Hale Allen, Clara Rinker, Marcy Sherrill, Ross Benton, Frank Lester, Adlai Stevenson (Mind Prey), Louise Marker, Art Durrell, Harriet Ashler, James Bone, Charlie Ross (Certain Prey), Kerin Baki, John McCallum, Donnal O'Brien, Carmel Loan, Louis Mallard and Bill Benson, Agent Malone, Dale - Something, Detective Sloan, Marta Blanca, Rolo D'Aquila, Sarah Davenport, Freddy and Dave, Lucas Davenport, Lucy and Roland Marks, Detective Tom Black, Franklin (Sudden Prey), Donald Westlake (Certain Prey), Steve (Certain Prey), Rasputin (Certain Prey), Rashid Al-Balah
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Police, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 24378
places: Wichita, Kansas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
series: Lucas Davenport
publisher: Simon & Schuster