Bad Blood - John Sandford

Title: Bad Blood

Author: John Sandford

Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010.

ISBN: 9780399156908

Copyright: 2010

Pages: 388

Quick Review: 3 stars (out of 5)

Why I Read It: David recommended this author.

Where I Obtained the Book: Got it at my local library. Synopsis: The brilliant new Virgil Flowers thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. 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 as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy-a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he's seen an awful lot in his life, even he has difficulty in comprehending it...and in figuring out what to do next.

Review: I love Virgil Flowers, he’s a man’s man and a woman’s man. He upholds the law and rarely takes a gun with him. The mystery is interesting and I love the fact that he sets his books in Minnesota and he even mentions Austin in this one. Great mystery and quirky characters(like most Minnesotans.)

Author Biography: John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Before entering the U.S. Army and serving in Korea, he received a bachelor's degree in American history from the University of Iowa in 1966. After leaving the service, he received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa.

During the 1970s, he worked at The Miami Herald, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1985, he began researching the lives of a farm family caught in the midst of the crisis of American farming. The article, Life on the Land: An American Farm Family, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. After winning the Pulitzer Prize, he began writing fiction. His works include the Prey series and the Virgil Flowers series. In 2010 he wrote the fourth book in the Virgil Flowers series, Bad Blood. He has also written nonfiction works on plastic surgery and art.

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