My firsthand experience of the area where the book takes place was probably a big factor in why I enjoyed this book. It was a reasonably enjoyable detective book - not a genre I like to read too often. ( )

Another winner from the Virgil Flowers series, with a little bit of a twist for poor Virgil - most of the women seem to be gay in this one, not that there's anything wrong with that. ;-).

Some people are getting killed, possibly over the course of years, and the common denominator seems to be either a women's vacation spot out in the wilderness, or an all-woman band nearby, especially the star of the band. So to make more people look suspicious, everyone is trying to hide things because it might hurt business or make someone look bad that has nothing to do with the case anyway, they think. But of course, Virgil finds out about all of it, and puts it all together, finally.

All in all, another fast and fun read with humor and interesting people. ( )

I had some John Sandford to catch up on this year. This is another Virgil Flowers story. A business woman is shot and killed when she takes a canoe out on her own from the woman-only lakeside lodge she was staying at. The killer managed to get away clean, leaving no traces in the woods near the lodge. Was the woman killed because of trouble with her business back in Minneapolis or due to her local contacts? ( )

Didn’t like this one as well as the first two. Maybe the backwoods mid-West setting didn’t do it for me. Vergil talking to God every night didn’t help. It just seemed like a tricky gimmick this time around. ( )

A rare 4.5 for a detective mystery. He hit all the right notes setting, characters, some humor, some philosophy, and a not too outrageous hero. And even though you figured Slibe "dunnit" thetwist at the end finished it of well as did our frustrated hero leaving Sig's house. That said Virgil gets laid a little too easily.

Great read. ( )