Virgil Flowers mysteries
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Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 1
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Virgil Flowers is sent to Bluestem, a small town where everyone knows everyone else, to investigate the murders of a man burned to death in his home and a doctor and his wife, unaware that he is tracking a murderer who may be targeting Virgil as his next victim.
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Heat lightning , Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 2
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Rough country , Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 3
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Bad blood , Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 4
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5) Shock wave
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Residents of a rural Minnesota community strongly oppose superstore chain PyeMart's plans to build in their town. Matters only get worse when someone sets off bombs at PyeMart headquarters and at the Minnesota construction site. PI Virgil Flowers must figure out who's responsible before more people get killed.
6) Mad River
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"Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension...
7) Storm Front
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[2013]
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Approached by an Israeli police officer who is tailing a man in possession of a stolen religious relic, Virgil Flowers learns that the artifact reveals startling details about the biblical King Solomon and that dangerous rivals are killing everyone who would protect it.
8) Deadline
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[2014]
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"In southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to a close. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether a local reporter should die. And the vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is doing a favor for a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning...
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[2016]
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Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are pure reading pleasure (Booklist ). The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that theyve been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
10) Deep freeze
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[2017]
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Class reunions: a time for memories-good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly-in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times -bestselling series. 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 view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There's...
11) Holy ghost
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Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 11
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Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those...
12) Bloody genius
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Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 12
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[2019]
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"Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly ... At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil...