From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a brand new Virgil Flowers thriller that will keep you gripped until the very last page.
A murdered body has been found -- and the victim is a local reporter....
Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier -- a team of dognappers supplying medical labs -- when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport.
There are no votes against.
The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. "Issues" is correct.
The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "\'It\'s unanimous,\' Barns said." In southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end.
Then the fat man raised his hand, and then Kerns, and then the rest of them.
Do we kill Clancy Conley?\' "They all looked around at each other, each of them reluctant to go first.
It\'s unanimous, or it\'s prison.
Let\'s see a show of hands.
We can do this. "Barns, the chairman, looked around the room and said, \'Okay.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a brand new Virgil Flowers thriller that will keep you gripped until the very last page
