Dark of the Moon
by John Sandford
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Author: John SandfordEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-30
ISBN: 0425224139
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Berkley
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Book Review: A new character for Sandford
Summary: 4 Stars
Agatha Christie used to say that she regretted making Hercule Poirot as old as she did when she started writing novels featuring him as a detective. He was a Belgian police inspector who was in England as a refugee from the First World War, and he just never left. He was also, in the first books, almost retirement age. By the time she was writing her later books he would have been, chronologically, about 120. She just ignored it, but it bothered her.
Fast forward almost a century, and John Sandford created a character for a detective series, and put some years on him. Lucas Davenport has been in about 15 or 20 Prey novels now, and he's got to be getting a bit long in the tooth. Sandford decided to create some new characters, and this is one of them, a younger, more hip detective who works for Davenport in the Minnesota State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Davenport succeeded in hiring Virgil Flowers by promising to "only give you the hard ones." His first case in a stand-alone book is indeed hard.
A couple, older, married, are murdered in a strange fashion in the tiny rural town of Bluestem. As Flowers is arriving in the evening, he sees a burning mansion and figures it must be that of a local millionaire and eccentric who legally cheated the whole county out of buckets of money, and had orgies at his house when he was younger to celebrate. Now he's been killed, too, and of course given Bluestem's size it's almost certain the killings are related to one another. Soon after Virgil's arrival, yet another married couple is killed, and things begin to heat up.
I enjoyed this book reasonably well. The main character is an interesting guy, at times sort of seemingly aimless, though it usually turns out that he has purpose to what he's doing. There are lots of secondary characters, and the plot involves everything from local politics to a white supremacist religious leader with perhaps a more sinister agenda. Flowers has a romance with a local, and spends time chasing bad guys through the cornfields of Minnesota.
I enjoyed this book, and would recommend it. It's not Sandford's best, but it's still pretty good.
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Three murders in just as many weeks in the quiet rural town of Bluestream is unheard of. It's also no coincidence. And it's not over: Detective Virgil Flowers is about to be pulled into the middle of a killer's violent personal vendetta.Contemporary Books
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