Everyone in the town has a view and Virgil listens to them all. He’s loose of lip and takes risks, but it often pays dividends as he regularly picks up snippets of information he can use. Or maybe not.įlowers is an engaging character who likes to talk to people and share information around. This time it should be more straightforward, a local resident has been murdered – surely he can wrap this up in a few days and get back to some serious relaxation. Last time around he managed to lock up the whole school board and run down a team of dogknappers. Here his vacation is interrupted by a request from his boss to return to the town featured in episode 8, Trippton, Minnesota.
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This is the 10th book in the Virgil flowers series and to me it feels as fresh as ever. They both have their own way of telling a tale: Connelly typically shows you the crime and then documents the chase for an unknown criminal (the classic, most often adopted form) in Sandford’s books you not only see the crime but you nearly always get to meet the malefactor too – this way you get to see subsequent events from the point of view of the the chaser and the chased. Whilst I’m not looking to recant this view I will say that I think John Sandford runs Connelly very close. They both have their own way of telling a tale: Connelly typically shows you the crime and then documents the chase for an unknown criminal (the classic, most often adopted form) in Sandford’s books you not only see the crime but you nearly always get to meet the malefactor too – this way you A while ago I expressed a view that Michael Connelly is the best storyteller in the crime fiction. These are just fun, rather quick reads, and the biggest draw is the dialogue, the lines, the funny situations and of course the trouble Flowers causes others and himself.Ī while ago I expressed a view that Michael Connelly is the best storyteller in the crime fiction. We know from the beginning who committed both crimes, the draw is of course the detecting, following of clues, and discovering who is hiding what and why.Īt this point it really doesn't matter what the case is, whether it attracts me not. So we get the usual suspects of stereotypical type that seem to populate this place, people who are harboring secrets, and those who harbor or hide evidence, so that Virgil can't figure out if he is coming or going.
A woman found dead, in the lake, a prominent member of the community, owner of the local bank, and Barbie and Ken dolls being altered in a sexual way. So we get the usual suspects of stereotypical type that seem to populate this place, people who are harboring secrets, and those who harbor or hide Well what can I say, this is Flowers!!! Two cases draw Flowers off his vacation, unwillingly as fans know how seriously Flowers takes his time off, which more often than not, he doesn't ever complete. Well what can I say, this is Flowers!!! Two cases draw Flowers off his vacation, unwillingly as fans know how seriously Flowers takes his time off, which more often than not, he doesn't ever complete. It is part of the "Prey" series but Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers share the billing - "Ocean Prey.". Librarian's note: as of 2021, there are 13 volumes in the author's Virgil Flowers series. It’s true what they say - high school can be murder. In the process, one thing becomes increasingly clear to him. So, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into decades of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. There’s a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty-five years ago. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt-and as it turned out, homicidal-local school board, and now the town’s back in his view with more alarming news: a woman has been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt-and as it turned out, homicidal-local school board, and now the town’s back in his view wit Class reunions: a time for memories-good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, sometimes deadly-in this "New York Times" bestselling thriller from John Sandford. Class reunions: a time for memories-good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, sometimes deadly-in this "New York Times" bestselling thriller from John Sandford.
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