Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, No. 2)
by John Sandford
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Author: John SandfordEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-06
ISBN: 0425230619
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Berkley
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Book Review: The 2nd Virgil Flowers novel
Summary: 4 Stars
Virgil Flowers was a secondary character in Sandford's Prey series. A couple of years ago, the author decided to split Flowers off and make him the central character in a new series. Sandford drops hints that what's going on is that he just wants to keep writing, and Lucas Davenport might be getting too old to be the center of a series of books along the lines that he's been writing. Virgil's younger than Lucas, so he can keep the series going longer.
Virgil's an interesting guy. He sort of drifted into being a cop. He's sort of counterculture, rarely wears a suit, has long hair, and wears a series of amusing t-shirts with strange themes which occasionally induce interesting reactions from those he comes into contact with, other cops, witnesses, victims, suspects. He often forgets his gun. In spite of all of this, he's a very good detective, and his "closure rate" is near perfect. So he's an interesting character for a series like this, and you really enjoy the scenes that involve him.
In this story, Flowers is called in to investigate a series of murders happening all over Minnesota. The killer, whoever he is, is professional enough to kill without being seen, but strange, too, in that he's leaving a lemon in each dead body's mouth. When Virgil begins to investigate, he discovers that several (but not all) of the victims served in Viet Nam during the war there, and decides that the killings might be related to the war. Also perhaps involved is a local academic, a Viet Nam war scholar who has made many enemies over the years with his anti-war editorials and books. He even had a Vietnamese wife (who has since died) and their daughter lives with him. Virgil thinks something interesting is going on, and investigates...with interesting results.
I enjoyed this book. Plot, characters, and action are all well-done, and the story's interesting. The ending was something of a surprise, though pretty believable. I would recommend it.
Summary of Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, No. 2)
A killer is leaving a puzzling calling card in the mouths of his victims. And in the middle of a steamy Minnesota summer, Virgil Flowers of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension finds himself embroiled in an investigation with no easy answers?and no easy way out.
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