Larger	Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, Bk 2) Author: John Sandford
	Book Information Publisher: Putnam Adult Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 71 ISBN-13: 9780399155277 - ISBN-10: 0399155279 Publication Date: 9/23/2008 Pages: 400 Book Reviews

"He might tear you apart with a pair of pliers, but he won't try to snipe you. He doesn't have that cold temperament--he gets all excited when he's killing somebody. That's what I'm told."

Two Vietnam War veterans executed in the Twin Cities, their bodies posed at war memorials, lemons in their mouths as gags. State investigator Virgil Flowers knows someone's sending a message, but who? And, more importantly, why?

Virgil had been promised the hard cases, but this one is more like a nightmare. When nobody is who they seem to be, and when everyone involved has a different story, the only safe place is out of the way. But Virgil, determined to get to the truth, is very much in the way. And that's an inconvenience that someone, somewhere, needs to fix. Permanently.
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John Sandford's introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success. Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he's been around the block a few times, and he doesn't think much can surprise him anymore. He's wrong.

It's a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if you're keeping count), when the phone rings. It's Lucas Davenport. There's a body in Stillwater--two shots to the head, found near a veteran's memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth.

Exactly like the body they found last week.

The more Flowers works the murders, the more convinced he is that someone's keeping a list, and that the list could have a lot more names on it. If he could only find out what connects them all...and then he does, and he's almost sorry he did.

Because if it's true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought--and every one of them is booby-trapped.