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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.