John Sandford: A thriller writer having a little fun with the genre
Among the leading crime novelists, John Sandford is notable for his sense of humor. You find it in his novels — particularly his Virgil Flowers series — and, if you happen to meet him, in casual conversation. When I met Sandford at the National Book Festival a decade ago, he professed uncertainty about the wife he had bestowed upon Lucas Davenport, the star of his hugely popular “Prey” series. The detective had run through numerous women in the early novels, Sandford said, and fearful that his promiscuity might offend some readers, he married off his hero to the beautiful and brilliant doctor Weather Karkinnen.
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