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Virgil Flowers heads north to solve a puzzling murder -- and finds that the country is very rough indeed. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Flowers gets a call asking him to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The resort is for women only: a place to relax, get fit, recover from plastic surgery and commune with nature. And the more Flowers digs, the more he discovers it to be a hotbed of jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger and fear. Then he discovers that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly unrelated killing the year before. And that there's about to be a third, definitely related one, any time now. And as for the fourth ...well, Virgil had better hope he can catch the killer before that happens. Because it could be his own.
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John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of seventeen PREY novels, four KIDD novels and the stand-alone thriller, DEAD WATCH. He lives in Minnesota. Visit www.johnsandford.org
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is not up to the standard of `Sandford's "Prey" books. This is probably due to the potrait of the detective "Virgil Flowers" whose relationship with the other characters is too "cosy". As a stranger he developes a relationship with the other characters too quickly and closely for credibility- he is after all a policeman investigating several murders. He no sooner meets a character than they are best friends. Having said that it is still worth reading even if my instinct was for him to fail!
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Very good book, a typical John Sandford that you will not want to put down till the end. Virgil Flowers is his 2nd character but his first, Lucas Davenport comes into these novels. Very good read.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Sandford's crime novels are always an interesting read and this is typical of the writer: effortless prose, well-drawn characters and scenes and an admirable economy of language.
With his 'Prey' series, we always used to follow his detective, Lucas Davenport, alongside the criminal. We'd know things that Davenport didn't and we'd be inside the head of the bad guy now and again. That offered a frisson, a dimension to the novels absent from their competitors within the genre. The Flowers series seems to be far more a traditional detective novel, where one inhabits only the detective's head, and I think loses a certain distinctiveness in the process.
With his 'Prey' series, we always used to follow his detective, Lucas Davenport, alongside the criminal. We'd know things that Davenport didn't and we'd be inside the head of the bad guy now and again. That offered a frisson, a dimension to the novels absent from their competitors within the genre. The Flowers series seems to be far more a traditional detective novel, where one inhabits only the detective's head, and I think loses a certain distinctiveness in the process.
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Slow going
Virgil Flowers returns, ever the horn-dog. This time the cowboy boot wearing detective is in a backwater Minnesota women's resort, the site of a murder for reasons unknown. Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by Mr. G. Battle
That 'something' Flowers
This is the third Virgil Flowers story by John Sandford, and it loves up there along with the first two, and the major Davenport novels that went before. Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2010 by Michael Ward
STUNNING SUSPENSE - FIRECRACKER PROSE
No question that thriller master John Sandford knows how to hook a reader early on. He's done it with 19 Prey novels and he does it again with this, the third in his Virgil Flowers... Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2009 by Gail Cooke
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