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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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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
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- Series: A Virgil Flowers Novel (Book 4)
- Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Berkley; Reprint edition (September 27, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780425243930
- ISBN-13: 978-0425243930
- ASIN: 0425243931
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In "Bad Blood" Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate a strange murder at a rural Minnesota grain elevator. A farmer had pulled in with his truck of grain. The young man working at the elevator retrieves his baseball bat and sneaks up behind the farmer. He clobbers the unsuspecting man then tries to make his death look like an accident, but this killing was clearly premeditated. Flowers is called in to this area where murders rarely occur by the new sheriff, an attractive woman named Lee Coakley. There's clearly a spark struck between them from the start.
But no time for romance yet. Crimes must be investigated. Within the first 40 pages there are 4 deaths, the farmer, then the young man who supposedly killed the farmer, then the cop who was guarding the young man in jail. Flowers is puzzling over these sudden deaths when he hears about a 4th death; an unsolved murder of a young woman that took place down south of the town, just across the Iowa state line, a year ago. That killing looked like a sex crime. Virgil is intrigued.
He discovers a key link between these 4 deaths: every one of the dead belonged to a mysterious religious cult. Flowers digs deeper and begins to suspect that this "religion" conceals a vast and enduring front for widespread child abuse. No spoilers here; I'll leave the joys of Virgil's sleuthing and his budding relationship with the sheriff for readers to savor for themselves.
Sandford performs a bit of literary derring-do here. He has his wise cracking, fun loving Virgil trying to solve a case that might involve a most horrific network of pedophiles. Child abuse is not funny. Virgil is. The combo actually works. Virgil lightens it up just enough to make all the dark parts not quite as sickening.
John Sandford's latest entry in his Virgil Flowers series suffers from a lot of flaws but is ultimately still an acceptable read. Sandford is a very competent writer, so even when he's not writing at his best the resulting work is usually better than much of what lesser writers are putting out there. Still, Sandford has done and can do much better, and I think in the Flowers series he sometimes really lets himself go and indulges some of his sloppier failings.
Like its predecessor Flowers novels, Bad Blood doesn't supply too much in the way of suspense or mystery since as has been his habit of late, Sandford in many scenes throughout the book places the reader inside the heads of the very dysfunctional and unlikable perps. This doesn't really enhance the enjoyablity of the story, and it makes much of the weight of keeping the reader's interest fall on the dialog (entertaining in general) and the usual apocalyptically violent shootout ending which has become an expected inside joke both among Flowers' fictional colleagues and Sandford's readers.
Sandford has mined the child sex crime scene before for plots and no doubt will again. This is clearly an issue close to his heart and on the one hand he's to be commended for not shrinking from the unpleasant details. But, there's also such as thing as needlessly describing in too graphically detailed a manner exactly who placed which implement or body part into which juvenile character, how many times, when, and at which locales. I don't object out of prudery - if he'd written a book with graphic sex scenes between adult characters, that would be completely different - but out of squeamishness. After a while I was flinching as I turned the pages.