Heat Lightning
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Virgil Flowers hunts a killer responsible for a strange string of murders in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago.
Working the murders, Flowers becomes convinced that someone is keeping a list—with many more names on it. And when he discovers what connects them all, he’s almost sorry. Because if it’s true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought it did—and every one of them is booby-trapped.
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14 primary books#2 in Virgil Flowers
Virgil Flowers is a 14-book series with 14 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by John Sandford.
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I haven't read the first Virgil Flowers book. This is the first one my library had, so that is where I started. Turns out this one stands alone well, but I reckon it is slightly spoilerish for the first book.
Anyway, I quite enjoyed Heat Lightning. It seems that someone is killing men execution style and leaving the bodies at veteran's memorials. Davenport is super busy; so, Virgil Flowers gets the call. Flowers moves in in his laid-back style, asking questions and generally shaking trees to see what falls out. It soon becomes apparent that the killings are very professional, and they are related somehow to an incident many years ago in Vietnam. Someone is on a vendetta.
Soon things get violent and deadly with plenty of action and gunplay, and with the killers always one step ahead. Flowers has has his work cut out both solving multiple mysteries and staying alive. The finish is both exciting and satisfactory.
Good crime fiction. Solid four stars.
