Rough Country

The third gripping Virgil Flowers thriller by internationally bestselling author John Sandford.A LAND WITHOUT LAW. A KILLER WITHOUT MERCY. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from his old friend 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, commune with nature, and sometimes get to know each other a little better.As Flowers begins investigating, he finds a web of connections between the people at the resort, the victim, and some local women – notably a talented country singer. And the more he digs, the more he discovers a multitude of motivations for murder: jealousy, greed, anger, and blackmail.And then Flowers learns that this is not the first death at this particular resort. Someone else died there a year ago. And there's about to be a third, definitely related death, 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. PRAISE FOR JOHN SANDFORD‘One of the great novelists of all time’ Stephen King  ‘A series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air’ Daily Mirror  ‘John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller’ New York Times Book Review  ‘John Sandford has the Midas touch’ Huffington Post  ‘Delivers twists to the very last sentence’ Daily Mail  ‘Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around’ Sun