num_pages: 388
description: Virgil Flowers has always been known for having a somewhat active er social life but he's probably not going to be getting too many opportunities during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in northern Minnesota he gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort where a woman has been shot while kayaking.The resort is for women only a place to relax get fit recover from plastic surgery commune with nature and while it didn't start out to be a place mostly for those with Sapphic inclinations that's pretty much what it is today.Which makes things more complicated for Virgil because as he begins investigating he finds connections between people at the resort and some local women notably a talented country singer. The more he digs the more he discovers arrows of suspicion that point in many directions with many motives: jealousy blackmail greed anger and fear. Then he discovers that this is not the first murder that there was a second seemingly unrelated the year before. And that there's about to be a third definitely related. As to a fourth... well Virgil better hope he can catch the killer before that happens. Because it could be his own.Librarian's note: as of 2021 there are 13 volumes in the author's Virgil Flowers series. The last was published in April 2021. It is part of the Prey series but Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers share the billing - Ocean Prey.
language: English
title: Rough Country
publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons