Rough Country, by John Sandford
The stockings are empty, the lights are put away, and the Christmas tree is at the curb waiting to be recycled. It’s time to relax with a good book and John Stanford has written a new one that features Virgil Flowers. Flowers has appeared in several novels about Lucius Davenport head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprension, but has also been the leading character in Dark of the Moon and Heat Lightening and now Rough Country. While Virgil is up in northern Minnesota at a fishing tournament, but he gets a call from his boss asking him to investigate a murder. A woman has shot as she was kayaking. Virgil finds several connections between the victim, the people at the resort, and some local women such as a talented country music singer. He also learns that there have been two more murders in the last two years. Will there be more killings? Should Virgil worry about being the target of a cold-blooded killer? As he investigates he finds plenty of suspects to choose from. Sandford’s tight plot and readable prose has readers squirming on the edge of their chairs so get to the library or bookstore and help Virgil Flowers find the murderer in Rough Country today!
