Audio Book Description:
Virgil Flowers kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the army and the military police,then the police in St. Paul, and finallyLucas Davenport broughthim into the BCA, promising him, "We`ll only give you thehard stuff." He`s been doingthe hard stuff for three years now-but never anything like this. In the small town of Bluestem, a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames, its owner,a man named Judd, trapped inside. There are a lot of reasons tohate him, Flowers discovers. In fact, he concludes, you`d probably have to digaround to find a person who doesn`t despise Judd. And that isn`t even why Flowers came toBluestem. Three weeks before,there`d been another murder-two,in fact-a doctor and is wife, the doctorfound propped up in hisbackyard, both eyes shot out. Flowers knows two things:This wasn`t a coincidence, and it hadto be personal. But just how personal is something even he doesn`t realize, and may not find out until too late. Becausethe next victim...may behimself.
