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When Bobby Tripp, a popular high school athlete, brutally kills a farmer late one night at a grain mill in rural Minnesota, there seems to be no logical explanation for the crime. Bobby fails in his attempt to disguise the murder as an accident and is arrested. Shortly thereafter, he is found hanging in his cell, an apparent suicide.Lee Coakley, an attractive divorcee who is also the local sheriff, appeals for help from Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Coakley wan...
I finished another Virgil Flowers book. I love these books. He is one of my favorite characters. I also like Will Trent from Karen Slaughter's novels. I try to read every book with him in it also. I have enjoyed John Sandford's book for quite a while and my mystery book club chose to read "Holy Ghost" in April and I realized again how much I enjoyed his books. This book had a lot of excitement and intrigue. Virgil opened up a big sex ring and child abuse ring in a small town that protrayed itsel...
This book makes me wish for a no stars option. Normally I enjoy this series both for the pace and the plotting. Not this time. The sexual abuse of women and children is ugly, and perhaps Sandford was trying to make that point. I couldn't help thinking that his depiction of sexual abuse of women and children for the purpose of entertainment (and let's not forget profit) was just as ugly. And it was made worse because I was listening to an audiobook and I couldn't skip over the more graphic sectio...