Heat Lightning (edit title)

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 8 books, including Heat Lightning, Wednesday, November 4 2009.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 8 books, including Heat Lightning, Wednesday, November 4 2009.

Jon B edited the series of Heat Lightning Sunday, October 11 2009.

• Changed the order to 02 for this book in the series: Virgil Flowers Series

Jon B edited the series of Heat Lightning Sunday, October 11 2009.

• Added this book in the series: Virgil Flowers Series (Primary series)

Shelfari edited the description of Heat Lightning Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Fresh from his “spectacular” (Cleveland Plain Dealer ) debut in Dark of the Moon , investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling—and most alarming—case, in the new book from the #1 bestselling author . 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 Plain Dealer ); “an idiosyncratic, thoroughly ingratiating hero” ( Booklist ). 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” ( Los Angeles Times ), this is vintage Sandford.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Heat Lightning Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: John Sandford: (Primary Author)