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Class reunions: a time for memories—good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly—in this New York Times bestselling thriller from John Sandford. Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt—and as it turned out, homicidal—local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There’s a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into twenty years’ worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. In the process, one thing becomes increasingly clear to him. It’s true what they say: High school is murder. Read more
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Publication date : October 17, 2017
Language : English
File size : 2.9 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Format: Hardcover
I am one of those people who have read all of the Virgil Flowers series along with the Prey Series and over the years they have given me a lot of reading pleasure and I am always excited when a new offering is released. Virgil Flowers, better known as ‘that F – ing Flowers’ returns to the smallish town of Tippton, Minnesota where in a previous novel Virgil arrests (for murder) the entire school board, breaks up a large Meth Lab and shuts down a dog stealing ring. While this repeat location seems to have disturbed some readers I personally was delighted. The reason for this is that a few of the familiar characters make reappearances and there is less ‘road time’ for Virgil. One of the few aspects of both the Flowers series and the Prey series is that many pages consists of characters spending page after page dashing here and there and the author, Sandford, gives a road by road, turn by turn and café by café account of each and every trip which I find to me more filler than adding to the story. In this novel we have much less windshield time and more story and plot. It is cold – the dead of winter which complicates things. The leading banker in down is found murdered by a fisherman and there is no motive but a large group of possible suspects. Virgil must do some deep digging and does it in a typical Flowers fashion. I have to admit that during the first 50 or so pages of this book I had a smile of my face and actually laughed (or giggled) throughout much of it. I found the dialog between characters to be as amusing and sharp as ever and I found the ‘whodunit’ aspect of the story to be up to Sandford’s normal high standards. The reading was smooth and I found myself drawn to not only Virgil but a number of other characters inhabiting this work. I must admit that I read this from cover to cover with very little letting off until I was finished...my wife did the same thing after I had finished...we both enjoyed this one. As a side note – I have lived and traveled all over the U.S. over the past 70 years and spent time in Minnesota and have traveled through the state; always in the summer. I doubt seriously if I will ever make a trip there during the winter....Good grief – I hate the cold and admire those that thrive on it. I cannot wait for the next ‘Flowers” offering.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017 by D. Blankenship
Format: Kindle
I truly enjoy the Flowers/Davenport novels, and this one was no exception. A lot of detail that adds authenticity and flavor. You can almost hear people say “Minnesohda.” Regrettably, though, the author apparently cannot help himself from gratuitously inserting flavors that bear on touchy current-day political topics, that are nearly always disparaging of conservatives or their viewpoints, that are often factually false, and that never add materially to the story. In this novel, there is a scene in which the murderer buys a .357 magnum pistol from a “dealer” who is selling in his hotel room at the venue where a gun show has convened in Rochester, MN. As the purchase is made, the dealer says, “No tax on that, this is a private sale. Won’t have to fool around with the background check, so you can put it right in your pocket and take it home.” As written, this scene could only happen legally if both seller and buyer reside in the same state and if the seller is NOT a professional licensed firearms dealer (i.e., an occasional, private seller). If the “dealer” were a licensed dealer, then he would have to do a background check, regardless of residence. In the novel, the buyer resides in MN, and the show is in MN, but where the seller resides is unknown. The term “dealer” may indicate that the seller is a professional dealer; but, in the scene, the dealer’s actual status is again unknown. So, if the “dealer” did not reside in MN, or if he were a licensed dealer, then the transaction would be illegal. So, it appears that the author has very artfully written the scene to be plausibly correct - but deliberately ambiguous - so as to push a particular political agenda: the so-called “gun show loophole,” a loophole that does not exist. (And, given recent events, does a disservice.) (There is also a scene in which there is mention of commonly using 12 ga. shotguns to hunt deer. Absurd.)
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Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2018 by J. Denny
Format: Hardcover
John Sandford has written a number of successful detective novels with Lucas Davenport as the main character and Virgil Flowers as part of his supporting cast. Virgil has become a main character in his own right and now commands center stage whenever his knowledge of small town midwestern attitudes and habits requires his own unique spin on things. There never seems to be a specific protocol to Virgil's investigations, hence the title of this review. Virgil simply inserts himself into the center of the action and shakes the trees until something useful falls out that he can pursue until his prey basically paints himself/herself into a corner. This is another interesting and well-written "who done it" involving small town characters who have known each other almost all of their lives. They have grown up together but belong to different cliches/groups that often have members who are mirror images of each other. It's relatively easy to be a "big fish in a small pond" and each of them takes their status seriously even though their achievements are based more on their upbringing than on their own marginal accomplishments. This is often described as being either "the best of the worst" and/or "the worst of the best". There is always someone better who plays on a bigger field -- they just don't live in this particular town. All of this is intimately familiar to me since I grew up in a small Wisconsin town with a population of just under 4,000 hearty souls. The townspeople inhabiting John Sandford's books are amazingly similar to those I grew up with. The difference is that I couldn't wait to escape that suffocating atmosphere, the same environment that provided safety and security to the residents who would never (ever) consider moving away. Heck, some of them never even considered crossing the state lines. All of this results in groups of residents who either love or hate one another and take great delight in the downfall of those who consider themselves "holier than thou". Pretty funny from my perspective but dead serious to them. Those of you who don't come from small town atmospheres will get a kick out of the social maneuvering here. Obviously the banker's daughter can't marry the local pest control owner's son. Virgil Flowers knows this unwavering fact and uses it to his advantage while trying to unsnarl this seemingly accidental crime. You gotta love Virgil. He'll do what he has to, including getting his own butt kicked by a bunch of women, in order to shake out the rodent responsible for the crime. Enjoy it!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2017 by Scott E. High
Format: Kindle
This is another in a continuing series of really great mysteries. John Sandford really knows how to write a deeply twisting mystery with strong and quirky characters and lots of laugh out loud sarcasm. I’ve read all his books and am now reading them a second time, they still hold up well. I like that each book, including this one is as good as the 1st, continuing character development and totally different plots. I highly recommend reading for anyone who loves a deeply plotted storyline, doesn’t mind a little gore included and has appreciation for sarcasm. All of his books in all his series are great 👍
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Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2026 by Connie Marie
Format: Kindle
Another great entry in the Virgil Flowers series. I love the quirkiness of the small town Minnesota settings and the weird and crazy characters. There's a bit of formula to these stories, but that's part of the reason I read series mystery fiction. Flowers is a likable character and the cast of family and friends are funny and believable. The small town politics and the dark but funny ne'er do wells that populate this series are always well done. On thing that Sandford manages is to create a host of characters that I never find confusing, they are well drawn by swift and deft descriptions that make them easily followable. Not an easy thing to do. In this entry Flowers revisits the town where he uncovered a conspiracy of the local elites to skim cash from the school system. This time he's chasing the murderer of a woman who was not very well liked, meanwhile, with Sandford's patented tongue-in-cheek style, a private investigator is tying to track down a woman who is adulterating Barbie and Ken dolls in a creepy way. These books remind me of the British cozy mysteries where every town has a dark underbelly and a host of rivalries and secrets. A lot of laugh out loud moments and some intense action, though these are essentially character driven books. I always look forward to these and ususally read them in a day or two. A real page-turner.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2017 by JM Harvey
Format: Kindle
I have been a fan of John Sandford for quite a few years now, and I can't say I've read anything I haven't liked (except maybe that space book he co-wrote, that wasn't very good) and more often than not I've loved. He is a goto author and I look forward to his release dates. Why? He is one of those authors who is consistent and his prose draws me in the movement of the story and doesn't get off on long detours (like past memories relived ). He sticks to the stories and his characters feel very real. Virgil books are great, and this one is no excception. I won't say this is the best book ever, but you stick with the story till the end and there is a subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) humor flowing through the book. John makes me want to be an investigator living in Minnesota and hauling my fishing boat to crime scenes. No that doesn't happen in this one. Just sayin'.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2017 by Jon Finch
Format: Kindle
I don't know how John Sandford does it. His novels are compulsively readable, and un-put-down-able. The book I read before this took me an entire weekend and several days out of the ensuing week. I finished Deep Freeze in three evenings, after work. The Sandford formula is not complex. Someone in rural Minnesota commits a murder; the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (Is there really such a thing?) dispatches veteran investigator Virgil Flowers, and through his knowledge accumulated through experience, he solves the crime. The stories always unfold in a smooth, water-streaming-downhill flow. In Deep Freeze, readers know who the killer is before knowing there's been a crime. Flowers arrives in Trippton, Minnesota--a town he's visited before-- to look into matters. En route, he is directed by a Federal colleague to aid an investigation into the illegal manufacture and distribution of talking Barbie dolls that have been altered to say some naughty things. Thus the exasperated Virgil rattled the entire population of Trippton by looking into two vastly different crimes at the same time. Does he solve them both? Well, my friends, books are out there to be read. I can promise that reading Deep Freeze is like sitting down in a comfortable chair with a party sized bag of chips, vowing to eat only a few, and then the next thing you know, the bag is empty. An enormously fun and easy read, and a worthy entry in the Sandford canon.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2018 by Michael Kleeberg
Format: Kindle
Mr. Camp (Sandford) is, hands-down, my favorite author of pop fiction. His success speaks for itself, and I have read some of his work for the second time. I recently picked up one of the early "Prey" novels, and it is fun to see how far Camp has evolved. So..., I hope that Camp will continue with the well-loved (and well-worn) characters that he has developed over the years. I also hope that he takes whatever time he needs to recharge his creative batteries, because "Deep Freeze" definitely shows a few signs of creakiness. When you are as prolific as Camp is, you certainly can't expect to hit a home run every time, but I think there was no good reason to revisit the setting of an earlier novel (especially since it is fictitious). Overall, the book feels like it was phoned in. Virgil Flowers should take a little vacation, see if he can hook a few muskies, and come back strong.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2017 by Vincent A. Williams