How long does it take to read Night Prey?
Night Prey by John Sandford takes about 6 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 359 pages, about 98,725 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was a very cold, very clear morning in the Carlos Avery game reserve - cold enough to preserve the body lying there, clear enough so the state investigator couldn't miss it. There was something familiar about the stab wounds, she thought - but the Minneapolis police dismissed her theories, and the city's new police chief has problems enough of her own. The cops are wary of her, the public thinks she's too political, the feminists think she's sold out. And this damn murder just won't go away. Caught in the middle, the chief turns to Lucas Davenport for help, and reluctantly, he agrees. Still recovering from his near-fatal wounds of the year before, trying for once in his life to settle down with one woman, Lucas has his own concerns, but something about this murder, and another like it - the body found in a dumpster this time - teases him, and the more he looks into them, the more he's sure the investigator is right. There is something disconcertingly familiar about the wounds not only in these two cases, but just maybe in several others as well. Somewhere out there lurks a killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, he's just getting warmed up....
Subjects: Fiction, Lucas Davenport (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, Pathologists in fiction, Pathologists
