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john sandford rough country 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 surgery, commune with nature, and while it didn’t start out to be
a place mostly for those with Sapphic inclinations, that’s pretty much what it is today.
Virgil begins investigating and finds a web of connections between the people
at the resort, the victim, and some local women, notably a talented country singer.
The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many
directions, encompassing a multitude of motivations: jealousy, blackmail, greed,
anger, fear. Then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second,
seemingly unrelated one, the year before. And that there’s about to be a third,
definitely related one, any time now. And as for the fourth . . . well, Virgil
better hope he can catch the killer before that happens. Because it could be his own.