Rough Country (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sandford

from bohemiangirl35

This is my second Virgil Flowers novel. It got off to a slow start but picked up the pace partway through and delivered. Virgil "F%$!ing" Flowers is a detective with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He is on vacation when he gets a call from his boss, Lucas Davenport (the main chara...

from housecarl

This is the fifth or sixth Sandford book I have read. I began reading them at the recommendation of my youngest son, who lives in Minneapolis. It is a good deal racier, sexually, than the other Sandford books I know. I suppose this is because Flowers is more of a stud than Lucas Davenport was in ...

from iluvvideo

I really enjoyed this book. The story was very entertaining, a page turner that I couldn't put down. I've read the prior two novels in the Virgil Flowers' series and found this one the best yet. Now understand. I'm not expecting a major classic work here. Just a well told, believable mystery with...

from mrtall

Rough Country recounts the back-country sleuthing of Virgil Flowers, one of the peripheral characters from John Sandford's better-known Lucas Davenport police procedural series. Davenport has a few phone cameos, but this is Flowers's show, and it's good fun. Although Rough Country falls short of ...

from FennecGirl

As a long-time fan of Sandford, I have found the last couple of "Prey" novels to be disappointing. Davenport has just become too soft now that he's married and has kids. Now, in steps Virgil Flowers - a younger, single Protégé of Davenport. But until this book, I just couldn't appreciate the char...