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Title:
Bad Blood
Genre:
Crime
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Series:
House Of Comarre #3
Narrative:
Second Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
187
Number of Chapters:
24
Synopsis:
From Publishers Weekly
When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford’s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp’s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp’s arrest, he’s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers’s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp’s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers’s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date. Author tour.
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From Booklist
Bobby Tripp was a good kid, working at a grain mill, saving for college. But he killed Jacob Flood, a local farmer delivering his harvest; and then, after Bobby was arrested, he hung himself in jail. The sheriff, Lee Coakley, reaches out for help to Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. She gets Virgil Flowers, the throwback hippie with the hair, the rock-band T-shirts, and a rep as a lockdown investigator. Coakley and Flowers catch a whiff of sexual abuse involving Bobby’s girlfriend. The abuse angle widens and is centered on a local church, but the congregation closes ranks with iron uniformity. Flowers and Coakley get a line on a woman who escaped the influence of the church years before. She becomes the key to the case, opening a Pandora’s box of multiple murders, criminal behavior among the sheriff’s deputies, and revelations of deviancy that go back generations. As usual, Sandford delivers a great mystery with action, suspense, humor, and, yes, sex. Virgil always gets his man, but he also gets the girl. Good reading, especially in the absence of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser. --Wes Lukowsky
Product Description
Two bodies in two days. One is murder. The other is suicide. Virgil Flowers never imagined that discovering the connection would lead him into the perverse history of the Minnesota farm community, and almost unimaginable darkness.
From Audiofile
John Sandford has written many chilling mysteries, and BAD BLOOD is among his scariest. What starts out as a cut-and-dried murder investigation with detective Virgil Flowers soon devolves into a complicated case involving a religious cult that has incorporated child sex into its Sunday service. Narrator Eric Conger is no stranger to crime novels, and he does his usual splendid job keeping the complex story line manageable with clear character definition. His laid-back style is perfectly suited to bringing out the contrast between the clean-cut Flowers and the rough-edged characters in the story. Conger makes Flowers’s passion clear--the detective needs to solve the case and save the children. M.S. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford’s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp’s subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp’s arrest, he’s found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers’s help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp’s death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers’s biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date. Author tour.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Bobby Tripp was a good kid, working at a grain mill, saving for college. But he killed Jacob Flood, a local farmer delivering his harvest; and then, after Bobby was arrested, he hung himself in jail. The sheriff, Lee Coakley, reaches out for help to Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. She gets Virgil Flowers, the throwback hippie with the hair, the rock-band T-shirts, and a rep as a lockdown investigator. Coakley and Flowers catch a whiff of sexual abuse involving Bobby’s girlfriend. The abuse angle widens and is centered on a local church, but the congregation closes ranks with iron uniformity. Flowers and Coakley get a line on a woman who escaped the influence of the church years before. She becomes the key to the case, opening a Pandora’s box of multiple murders, criminal behavior among the sheriff’s deputies, and revelations of deviancy that go back generations. As usual, Sandford delivers a great mystery with action, suspense, humor, and, yes, sex. Virgil always gets his man, but he also gets the girl. Good reading, especially in the absence of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser. --Wes Lukowsky
Product Description
Two bodies in two days. One is murder. The other is suicide. Virgil Flowers never imagined that discovering the connection would lead him into the perverse history of the Minnesota farm community, and almost unimaginable darkness.
From Audiofile
John Sandford has written many chilling mysteries, and BAD BLOOD is among his scariest. What starts out as a cut-and-dried murder investigation with detective Virgil Flowers soon devolves into a complicated case involving a religious cult that has incorporated child sex into its Sunday service. Narrator Eric Conger is no stranger to crime novels, and he does his usual splendid job keeping the complex story line manageable with clear character definition. His laid-back style is perfectly suited to bringing out the contrast between the clean-cut Flowers and the rough-edged characters in the story. Conger makes Flowers’s passion clear--the detective needs to solve the case and save the children. M.S. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
Publisher:
Saddleback Educational Publishing, Incorporated
Barcode:
9781622507665
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:57:05
