false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180030709m/988950.jpg 988950 14 Virgil Flowers-tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's-had kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First, it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport had brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He'd been doing the hard stuff for three years now-but never anything like this. In the small town of Bluestem, where everybody knows everybody, a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames, its owner, a man named Judd, trapped inside. There is a lot of reason to hate him, Flowers discovers. Years ago, Judd had perpetrated a scam that'd driven a lot of local farmers out of business, even to suicide. There are also rumors swirling around: of some very dicey activities with other men's wives; of involvement with some nutcase religious guy; of an out-of-wedlock daughter. In fact, Flowers concludes, you'd probably have to dig around to find a person who didn't despise him. And that wasn't even the reason Flowers had come to Bluestem. Three weeks before, there'd been another murder-two, in fact-a doctor and his wife, the doctor found propped up in his backyard, both eyes shot out. There hadn't been a murder in Bluestem in years-and now, suddenly, three? Flowers knows two things: This wasn't a coincidence, and this had to be personal. But just how personal is something even he doesn't realize, and may not find out until too late. Because the next victim ... may be himself. 974443 2 10 2007 Dark Of The Moon (Virgil Flowers, #1) total:956|5:173|4:413|3:310|2:54|1:6| 956 3561 1261 158 4 1 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 12:19:20 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 12:19:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 00:03:11 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 00:56:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 10:30:34 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 10:32:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 09:11:50 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 00:58:38 -0700 2009
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I have read every one of Sanford's Lucas Davenport "Prey" novels at least once, some two or three times.

This book frustrated me a bit, right smack in the middle, as Davenport's Detective Virgil Flowers tries to solve...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 00:22:08 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 00:37:59 -0700 2008 could read them without my reading glasses, I find large print books esthetically unappealing. Th...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Sep 07 16:23:56 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 16:24:30 -0700 2008 You can read the full review on my blog.<a/>

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