false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255785699m/3080212.jpg 3080212 9 <B>Fresh from his "spectacular" (Cleveland <I>Plain Dealer</I>) debut in <I>Dark of the Moon</I>, investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling,and most alarming, case, in the new book from the #1 bestselling author</B>. John Sandford's introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success: "laser-sharp characters and a plot that's fast and surprising" (Cleveland <I>Plain Dealer</I>); an idiosyncratic, thoroughly ingratiating hero - (<I>Booklist</I>). 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. Filled with the audacious plotting, rich characters, and brilliant suspense that have always made his books "compulsively readable" (<I>Los Angeles Times</I>), this is vintage Sandford. 3111256 23 9 2008 Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2) total:615|5:114|4:278|3:182|2:36|1:5| 615 2305 850 145 4 1 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 22:24:53 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 22:03:34 -0700 2008 This is the second in Sandford's new Virgil Flowers series, and I liked it more than the first one, Dark of the Moon. Good ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 11:04:59 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 15:10:08 -0800 2008 ...more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 08:33:41 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 16:30:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 07:44:44 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 07:48:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 19:40:47 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 00:41:38 -0700 2008
The only quibble I have is the fact that Lucas Davenport, Sand...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 22 15:45:02 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 15:46:53 -0700 2008
i'll read the next one when it comes out.]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:30:50 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:37:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 20:42:25 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 21:02:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:45:41 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:48:58 -0700 2009
My biggest frustration with his writing is that he never bothers to reintroduce characters, so the books don't re...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 08:24:22 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 08:28:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 19:24:37 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 22 06:45:30 -0700 2009 Dark of the Night was a terrific read and, so far, this looks to equally terrific. As Lucas Davenport of the Prey series gets more and more entangled in politics and home life, we have Virgil Flowers to look to.

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This book is the second with Davenport's colleague, Virgil Flowers, as the hero. It has a different tone than the "Prey" books, but is just as fast-mov...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 10:05:03 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 10:10:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 21 07:41:36 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 07:45:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3080212