The plan was simple and should have saved Wheatfield,
Minnesota. A town of 700 people,
Wheatfield was suffering the slow death that many small towns all across
America are facing every day. That was until the floating image of the Virgin
Mary appeared at a local church. Unlike many such apparitions, this one was
recorded by numerous cellphones and shared on social media giving it immediate
legitimacy. The tourist industry boomed as word spread and locals cashed in on
the bonanza.
Until the shootings started.
The faithful are still coming, but that will
change if the shootings continue. And the shooter just might kill somebody. Late
spring in Minnesota and Virgil has the case down in Wheatfield, an hour away
from his home in Mankato, Minnesota. Virgil knows the sniper is probably some
sort of nut case and has had a long history of dealing with nut cases in his
career as an agent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
While everyone in town knows Virgil is a cop
investigating the sniper case, the sniper is undeterred. Throw in a murder, which
may or may not be separate from the sniper shootings, and things just get
interesting in a hurry.
Holy
Ghost: A Virgil Flowers Novel is a fairly
straightforward action novel. The book is mainly about the hunt for the sniper
with a couple of interesting minor plot threads thrown in for fun. Like all
series, it would have been a good idea to read the earlier books in this series
to get all the inside jokes. However, if you have not read the others, Holy
Ghost: A Virgil Flowers Novel is a pretty good one to start with if you
are new to the series about “that fuc*ing Flowers.”
Holy
Ghost: A Virgil Flowers Novel
John Sandford
Thorndike Press (Gale/Cengage)
October 2018
ISBN # 978-1-4328-5520-8
LARGE PRINT Hardback (also available in
regular print hardback, audio, and digital formats)
513 Pages
$27.95
Material
supplied by the good folks of the Dallas Public Library System.
Kevin R.
Tipple ©2018
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