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Rough Country (Virgil Flowers, Bk 3)
Author: John Sandford

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Publisher: Putnam Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 206
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ISBN-13: 9780399155987 - ISBN-10: 0399155988
Publication Date: 9/29/2009
Pages: 400

Book Description:
The third adventure of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers.

Virgil's always been known for having a somewhat active, er, social life, but he's probably not going to be getting too many opportunities for that during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, he gets a call from Lucas Davenport 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, commune with nature, and while it didn't start out to be a place mostly for those with Sapphic inclinations, that's pretty much what it is today.

Which makes things all the more complicated for Virgil, because as he begins investigating, he finds a web of connections between the people at the resort, the victim, and some local women, notably a talented country singer. The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many directions, encompassing a multitude of motivations: jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger, fear. Then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly unrelated one, 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 better hope he can catch the killer before that happens. Because it could be his own.

(John Sandford, pseudonym of John Roswell Camp, aka John Camp)

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Mary S. wrote on 10/13/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Sanford has done it again. His latest book starts with a lady thinking about finally realizing her dream and becoming head of her company and how to make the bottom line work by eliminating jobs. She is in a canoe looking at an eagles nest when she is shot. Virgil Flowers is interrupted in the middle of a fishing contest by Lucas Davenpot and must go to investigate. There are a lot of people in line as lead suspects. The dead lady is very wealthy. She is going to take over her company and people know there will be job cuts. An undiscovered singer needed her to hit the big time. Is there someone who doesn't want this to happen? Is someone jealous of her affairs? The burning question, will Virgil ever ease his sexual tension? The book has everything you would want in a mystery and is very well-written as all of Sanford's books are. It grabs you at the very beginning and keeps up until the last page.




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