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Dark of the Moon por John Sandford
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Dark of the Moon (original 2007; edição 2007)

por John Sandford

Séries: Virgil Flowers (01), Davenport Universe (22)

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
“Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford’s Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own..”*
He’s been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he’s never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his wife were murdered. Three homicides in Bluestem in just as many weeks is unheard of. It’s also no coincidence. And it’s far from over...
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Título:Dark of the Moon
Autores:John Sandford
Informação:G.P. Putnam's Sons-Hardcover
Coleções:A sua biblioteca
Avaliação:****
Etiquetas:John Sandford-Virgil Flowers Series

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(2007) Virgil is assigned to help with the murder of an old couple that leads to several other local murders. Even the girl he falls for in town is a suspect. Turns out it was all related to the inheritance of one of the dead men's estate. Pretty good book and a good break from the Davenport series.BooklistHeaded to rural Bluestem to assist local law enforcement with the seemingly motiveless murder of an elderly couple, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers happens upon a raging house fire on the edge of town. The house's owner, Bill Judd, killed in the blaze, was an elderly recluse who, back in the day, ran an elaborate pyramid scheme and simultaneously bedded half the women in town. He escaped conviction on the fraud charge, and the money was never recovered. There have been no murders in Bluestem for a half-century, and now there are three in a couple weeks. Virgil is not an advocate of coincidence and so begins digging for a connection between the victims. Complicating matters is his affair with the sister of the local police chief. Sandford's plotting and dialogue are as crisp as ever, and the emergence of Virgil Flowers gives the author another idiosyncratic, thoroughly ingratiating hero to alternate with the ever-popular Lucas Davenport. Flowers, who made his debut as a secondary character in the Davenport thriller Invisible Prey (2007), is a low-key loose cannon whose wardrobe consists of alternative-rock t-shirts carefully chosen to match his agenda of the day. The appeal of the Davenport series is mainly tied to the hero's wit and self-deprecating humor, but this first Flowers entry is more about action: an adrenaline rush peppered with laugh-out-loud moments.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
This was pretty good, though more bloody than I'm comfortable with. First of a series; I'll continue with it. ( )
  JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |
I thought I had read this years ago, but didn't remember it, so I reread it. I'm glad I did, as I like the characters, and plan to read more. The story was pretty complex, and had a bit of humor mixed in, which I always like.

Virgil Flowers is an interesting guy. The son of a minister/engineer, a graduate in environmental science, a writer of outdoors magazine articles, and now a fairly laid-back cop in the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension working under another John Sandford character, Lucas Davenport. He's a thinking cop, and pretty non-violent. He doesn't like to carry a gun, and once shot someone something like 12 times without killing him. Apparently, he wasn't trying very hard.

He has an interesting way of solving the crimes in this book; he writes it up as a fictional story to see where it takes him. I guess this helps him imagine what the characters are thinking and doing, and it seems to work for him.

The one thing that doesn't seem to work for him is marriage. He's been married and divorced 3 times, and has apparently given up on marriage, although his heart is having trouble believing it. He likes the ladies, and they seem to like him. ( )
  MartyFried | Oct 9, 2022 |
Like Lee Child. Potato chips, escapist. Interesting protagonist. ( )
  PattyLee | Dec 14, 2021 |
An acceptable book, but a little too long, and the ending was disappointing - no real surprise at all. ( )
  highlander6022 | Dec 13, 2021 |
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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
“Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford’s Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own..”*
He’s been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he’s never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his wife were murdered. Three homicides in Bluestem in just as many weeks is unheard of. It’s also no coincidence. And it’s far from over...

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