Rough Country
by:
John Sandford (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781602855861 (1602855862)
Publish date: November 1st 2009
Publisher: Center Point
Pages no: 447
Edition language: English
Series: Virgil Flowers (#3)
A nice suspense novel that will please the fans of the genre. The only thing that irked me was the constant suggestion that women become lesbians because of abuse suffered in the hands of men :/ However, he did manage to write a suspense novel with lesbians without fetishizing them beyond recognitio...
First, I must say that John Sandford is probably my favorite author. I have read every book he's written, many of them twice. His Prey novels, with Lucas Davenport, are eagerly awaited each year. When he started up the Virgil Flowers character I wanted to like him as much as Lucas, but couldn't. The...
Rough Country, 2 stars. I think Mr. Sandford found an off-market “Most Popular Baby Names” because his characters sport monikers like: Zoe, Signy, Virgil, Berni, Slibe. Not exactly common. This story revolves around a killing at an exclusive retreat for women in the Minnesota woods, a place where th...
Virgil Flowers, the Minnesota state cop and spin-off character from Sandford's Lucas Davenport series, returns to solve another mystery and get a little fishing done. A lesbian is murdered while kayaking on a lake at an upscale Minnesota restort that caters exclusively to women. With that political ...
Heh heh, Virgil is sent to solve a murder in what amounts to ZZ Top's Planet of Women. He's a guy who usually gets the girl pretty handily. But here all the women want each other, not him. Poor Virg!:D