John Sandford's PREY Book Tour and Giveaway

TLC Book Tours is having a John Sandford PREY Series blog tour all through May.  And I am here with NAKED PREY.  But they're doing it a little differently.  Instead of me reviewing the book, I am answering a questionnaire about the book.

Here goes:
Title and series number of the book you read: Naked Prey – Book 14

Year published: 2003

Tell us about Lucas Davenport:
What is Lucas doing when he first appears in the book?: It is January in Minnesota; the days are short and the evenings long. Lucas is awakened as he wife gets out of bed to tend to their second child who is crying in his crib. But their housekeeper deals with the baby. He can not go back to sleep because his wife starts her shower and the housekeeper is making too much noise downstairs. He decides to overcome his depressed mood and gets little frisky when his wife steps out of the bathroom. Again, their housekeeper interrupts.

Lucas’s occupation or professional role? Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner. He fixes crime for the governor.

Lucas’s personal status (single, dating, married): Married (see above)

Lucas Davenport is a known clothes-horse; did you notice any special fashion references? When he first goes to the office he is wearing a cashmere overcoat much to the chagrin of his fellow co-workers.

Let’s talk about the mystery:
Avoiding spoilers, what was the crime/case being solved? Two people; one black man and one white woman are found hanging from a tree in a small town in Minnesota – dead, naked and frozen. The question is be whom and why?

Does the title of your book relate to the crime? Yes, because both victims were naked when found.

Who was your favorite supporting character, good or evil? My favorite supporting character is Letty West, the young girl who finds the bodies.

What was your favorite scene or quote? My favorite scene is in the beginning when Lucas is being playful with is wife who just got out of the shower. He is happening for some lovemaking but they are interrupted by the sound of their housekeeper. It shows what a good relationship he and his wife have since both are hard working professionals.

Finally, how do you envision Lucas Davenport? If he were to be portrayed in a movie, what celebrity would play him? At first thought, Bruce Willis, but when he was younger. I think Mark Walberg could play the character of Lucas Davenport.

And now the book description (for those who haven't read the book):
Lucas Davenport has a new job - a trouble-shooter on the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. He's married now, and a new father, all of which is fine with him: he doesn't mind being a family man. But he is a little worried. If there's one thing Lucas Davenport knows, it's that for every bit of peace you get, you have to pay - and he's waiting for the bill. It comes in the form of two people found hanging from a tree, in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes it particularly sensitive is that the bodies are those of a black man and a white woman, and they're naked. "Lynching" is the word that everybody's trying not to say - but, as Lucas begins to discover, the murders are not, in fact, what they appear to be. And there is worse - much, much worse - to come...

Check out:
John Sandford's website

The Days of Prey blog tour schedule (please visit the rest of the bloggers on this tour)

Storm Prey on Amazon.com (John Sandford's newest book - being released May 18, 2010)

And now for the giveaway (drum roll, please):
One lucky reader of my blog will win a copy of Naked Prey, plus an ARC copy of the new book, Storm Prey.

Book Description
And this time, there's a storm brewing...Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then things swiftly go bad, one of the workers dies, and the robbers hustle out to their truck-and find themselves for just one second face-to-face with a blond woman in the garage: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport.

Did she see enough? Can she identify them? Gnawing it over later, it seems to them there is only one thing they can do: Find out who she is, and eliminate the only possible witness...

Rules:
Open to US/Canada residents only.
NO P.O. boxes.
Open to subscribers and followers of my blog only.  Must leave a comment stating you are either a subscriber and/or follower (and of, course) you must be a subscriber or follower.
Please leave you email address in your comment so that I can contact you if you win.
Giveaway ends Thursday, May 20, 2010.

Thank you, Lisa at TLC Book Tours and Lydia at G.P. Putnam's Sons for giving me this opportunity.