He sometimes misreads suspects and jumps to conclusions. Virgil Flowers has the highest rate of closed cases of all the agents in the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Heat Lightning – “That f-ing Virgil Flowers,” Vietnam vets, the CIA, and a serial killer And, oh by the way, he’s one of the top investigators in the fictional Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) known far and wide in the bureau as “that f***ing Flowers.” Read the review. Though his own faith rejects Jesus, he’s “the son of a Presbyterian minister and a professor of engineering, who saw in God the Great Engineer and believed as devoutly as her husband.” He’s been married and divorced three times, but “he didn’t want to be a four-time loser, so he stopped getting married.” He’s also a university graduate with a degree in environmental science, an outdoorsman, a published writer for hunting and fishing magazines, and an aspiring short story writer. Virgil Flowers is a horndog who feels compelled to chase every pretty woman under the age of 50. The 12 excellent Virgil Flowers novels Dark of the Moon – In Virgil Flowers’ debut, arson, multiple murder, and a right-wing preacher The plots are outlandish the characters peculiar and the best bits of dialogue are largely unprintable.” Amen to that.

5, 2018), columnist Marilyn Stasio notes that “John Sandford’s madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries are more fun than a greased-pig-wrestling contest. Writing in the New York Times Book Review (Oct. The 12 excellent Virgil Flowers novels are a spinoff from the longer series. Bestselling crime novelist John Sandford originally developed Virgil Flowers as a character in his long-running Prey series starring Lucas Davenport (another fascinating and entirely original Sandford character).

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