Holy Ghost
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- 69,00 kr
Publisher Description
Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist)
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd all get rich! What could go wrong?
When the dead body shows up, they find out, and that's only the beginning of their troubles--and Virgil Flowers'--as they are all about to discover all too soon.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Minnesota detective Virgil Flowers returns with a prairie murder mystery that’s amusingly loopy and darkly puzzling. In Holy Ghost, John Sandford’s unorthodox hero heads to Wheatfield (population 650), where enterprising hoaxsters have rejuvenated the dying economy by faking Virgin Mary apparitions at the local church. Crowds suddenly overrun the town—until a sniper starts stalking congregants and Flowers is called to investigate. Driven by a likable cast of idiosyncratic locals—including a one-footed mayor who shoots bugs for fun and a secret-genius teenager making it rich with pot pies—this rural thriller is as satisfying as an afternoon horse ride.
