Mystery: Shadow Prey / Smokescreen / There Was a Little Girl

Shadow Prey — John SandfordA slumlord and a welfare supervisor butchered in Minneapolis . . . a rising political star executed in Manhattan . . . an influential judge taken in Oklahoma City . . . All the homicides have the same grisly method — the victim's throat is slashed with an Indian ceremonial knife — and in every case the twisted trail leads back through the Minnesota Native American community to an embodiment of primal evil known as Shadow Love. Once unleashed, Shadow Love's need to kill cannot be checked, even by those who think they control him. Soon he will be stalking Lucas Davenport — and the woman he loves... Smokescreen — Dick FrancisEdward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays detectives on the big screen. But when his godmother asks him to investigate her racehorses in South Africa, he's out of his depth. Soon enough, he's plunged into a plot of gold, greed, and gilded lives that forces him to uncover a killer and give a bravura performance he'll never give again....There Was a Little Girl — Ed McBainAfter Matthew Hope slips into a coma — the result of a drive-by shooting — his friends, private eye Warren Chambers and police detective Morris Bloom — must follow in his investigative footsteps to discover why he was shot. All signs point to the local circus — an underworld of offbeat sex, drugs, blackmail, murder, and in the center of it all, there was a little girl.