From Barnes & NobleThe first homicide was easy to solve: A beating death that the teenage murderer tried to pass off as a fatal grain elevator accident. Beyond that, each case gets tougher, but Minnesota sleuth Virgil Flowers doesn't stop until a widespread conspiracy involving town leaders is exposed.
Publishers WeeklyWhen 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford's exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp's subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp's arrest, he's found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers's help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp's death.
