The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
“Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford’s Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own..”*
He’s been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he’s never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his wife were murdered. Three homicides in Bluestem in just as many weeks is unheard of. It’s also no coincidence. And it’s far from over...
While not technically part of the Prey series, this book showcases another of Davenport’s crew, Virgil Flowers. Or, “That fuckin’ Flowers”, as he is often known. It took me a little time to warm up to Flowers, but I was soon sucked into the mystery. I don’t think it had quite the same punch as a good Prey book, but Lucas Davenport pops his head up enough to remind you where you are.
