read on Audible borrowed from TPPL
2018 G P Putnam's Sons
373 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery/Series
Finished 12/3/2018
Goodreads rating: 4.21 - 8068 ratings
My rating: 4
Setting: Contemporary rural Minnesota
First line/s: "Wardell Holland, the mayor of Wheatfield, Minnesota, was sitting in the double-wide he rented from his mother, a Daisy Match Grade pellet rifle in his hands, shooting flies."
My comments: Hanging out with Virgil Flowers always leaves me in a happy place. I love love love the way that Eric Conger reads these books. I don't think reading them myself would be half as enjoyable. Sometimes it seems like Virgil and his crew do more bumbling around that they should, but it always adds good reading and humor to the story. This story had more sad killings than I would've liked, but kept me engrossed and interested from beginning to end. Another good one, John Sandford.
Goodreads synopsis: 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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