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Holy Ghost
By John SandfordPublisher Description
Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist)
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd all get rich! What could go wrong?
When the dead body shows up, they find out, and that's only the beginning of their troubles--and Virgil Flowers'--as they are all about to discover all too soon.
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd all get rich! What could go wrong?
When the dead body shows up, they find out, and that's only the beginning of their troubles--and Virgil Flowers'--as they are all about to discover all too soon.
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“The Virgil Flowers series remains the only detective style mystery series I can remember where the dialogue and observations make me giggle on a regular basis, which is why I keep reading them, despite never quite shaking the occasional appearance of wince-worthy passages representing small town not-quite-elightnened mindsets towards women and trans people that don't get covered under 'he meant well' because the protagonist never seems to challenge the viewpoints, and hey, unlike earlier books, this one was published in 2018.
I did appreciate Virgil losing his shit when a scared
civilian points a gun at him; it's pretty clear it wasn't the author's intention, but I think it acts well as an argument for gun control.
In that same theme, I did not expect to hear a short, cogent argument for the problem with bow hunting.
The heart-warming family moments and the community of quirky characters that pulls together to solve a murder keep me coming back for more. 1/2”Likable charactersEasy to readAbuse
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About John Sandford
John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of twenty-eight Prey novels, most recently Twisted Prey; four Kidd novels, eleven Virgil Flowers novels, and six other books, including three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook.
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