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 | Dark of the Moon by John Sandford | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Putnam
http://www.us.penguingroup.com ISBN: 0399154779 Genre:Fiction Subgenre: Mystery Release date:Sept 2007 Format: Hardcover Pages: 384p Price: $26.95 | |||
| To look at him nobody would believe that Virgil Flowers is a police officer, one of Lucas Davenport’s best (see Invisible Prey for the case in which Flowers assisted the Minnesota Bureau of Crime Apprehension Chief). He wears casual clothing, has long hair, looks younger than his years, and has a breezy, amiable manner that enables him to make friends easily. He is on his way to Bluestem, Minnesota, to investigate the deaths of the octogenarian Gleasons, who apparently knew their killer.
As he enters the town, he sees a house belonging to the recently deceased wealthy Bill Judd. The sheriff asks Virgil to help him with the Judd murder, another eighty-something year-old person killed in a horrendous fashion. Judd scammed the townsfolk with a pyramid scheme, making millions; so he had plenty of enemies. In a town where murder almost never occurs, three in a short period of time doesn’t strike Flowers as coincidental, especially the age of the victims. When another couple also in their eighties is killed, Flower is certain that there is a methodical organized sociopathic killer hiding in plain sight. During the course of his investigations, he discovers a meth lab, a mole in the police department, and a church dealing with criminals. For one independent police officer, he finds himself involved with a serial killer, townsfolk, the sheriff, a lover, and the dead all lead him to the killer if he is clever enough to find the link. John Sandford’s latest protagonist is an adrenaline junkie living on the edge but within the rules of an excellent police officer. Flower deserves his own series, because his style and methods are as good as his boss, Lucas Davenport, even though they are ying and yang. There are many different mysteries that tie into the storyline, and they are easy to follow, although the reader will be perplexed until the very last page of a very fine and exciting police procedural. | |||
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