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Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator -- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down... and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure, and...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Jimmy Sharp, Becky Welsh, Tom McCall. They were Bonnie and Clyde, they thought, and what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it is captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Headed 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...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Virgil's always been known for having a somewhat active, er, social life, but he's probably not going to be getting too many opportunities for that during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, he gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The resort is for women only, a place to relax, get fit, recover from plastic...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site...
8) Broken prey
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Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The first victim is a young woman, probably flayed alive and raped. Lucas Davenport, head of Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is assigned to the case by his boss, the governor, who fears political fallout if a serial killer is on the loose. A tip puts Davenport and his team on the trail of a recently paroled sexual offender. Charley Pope never killed anyone, but conventional wisdom indicates his rage may escalate.
9) Hidden prey
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English
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On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Orslov is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why, everybody-the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves-has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan.
10) Certain prey
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Series
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English
Description
Clara Rinker is one of the best hit women in the world, but when a defense attorney wants a rival killed and a witness survives, Clara feels her life falling apart, and the only way she thinks she can save it is to kill anyone who is even remotely connected to the case.
11) Rules of prey
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Series
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English
Description
A young attorney who kills for the sheer contest of it is tracked by Lucas Davenport the only member of the Twin Cities Special Intelligence Department.
12) Shadow prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
A series of ritualistic murders committed across the United States draws Lucas Davenport into an unimaginable conspiracy of revenge in this “classic”(Boston Globe) thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis...A rising political star executed in Manhattan...A judge slashed to death in Oklahoma City...
Each victim has a history of bad behavior, but the only thing...
A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis...A rising political star executed in Manhattan...A judge slashed to death in Oklahoma City...
Each victim has a history of bad behavior, but the only thing...
13) Eyes of prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Lucas Davenport attempts to solve the murder planned by an evil but intelligent man fascinated by all aspects of death.
14) Chosen prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
Troubled by both city politics and his relationship with his fiancee, Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport finds the comfortable routines of a murder investigation as soothing as a worn pair of jeans. The discovery of a young woman's body, missing 18 months, leads to a local pornographic photography ring that posts its handiwork on the Internet. In the confiscated files, Lucas finds a photo of a woman who was standing near the site where...
15) Mind prey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the abduction of a woman and her two young daughters, deputy chief Lucas Davenport faces the most challenging case of his career, while the victim, psychiatrist Andi Manette, applies all her skills to outwit her captor.
16) Sudden prey
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English
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Lucas Davenport's men have been tracking a vicious woman bank robber named Candy, and when they finally catch up with her, she does not go quietly. In the ensuing shoot-out, she dies and Davenport's nightmare begins, for her ex-husband swears an appropriate revenge.
17) The fool's run
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English
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Two people hired to ruin a rival company through computer espionage discover that their string of successes have become a noose intended to catch them.
18) Secret prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Lucas Davenport, assigned to investigate the shooting of a company chairman who died while hunting with four executives, senses that the case is going to be much more complicated than it appears on the surface.
19) The Devil's code
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Series
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English
Description
Kidd, an artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal, teams up with his sometime partner/sometime lover LuEllen to find out what really happened to Jack Morrison, a colleague who was supposedly killed by a jittery security guard while raiding a company's files.
20) Winter prey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Lucas Davenport agrees to help a Wisconsin sheriff solve multiple murders in a remote wooded area. Both men are challenged by an alien evil.
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