Rough Country, John Sandford
Rough Country, John Sandford
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Rough Country

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Eric Conger

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/29/2009

Synopsis

The murder of a successful advertising executive leads Detective Virgil Flowers to the unlikely scene of the crime: a peaceful and bucolic wooded resort with as many suspects as it has secrets...

While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers receives a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a brutal murder at a nearby resort for women only. As Virgil begins investigating, he finds a web of connections between the people at the resort, the victim, and some local women, notably a talented and popular country singer. The more Virgil digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion point in many directions, encompassing a multitude of motivations: jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger, and fear.

Then Virgil discovers something that sends his investigation reeling. This is not the first murder connected to the Eagle Nest Lodge. Nor will it be the last...

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Supratim on June 11, 2018

The endorsement by THE Stephen King on the cover page of the novel had attracted my attention. By the way it is a murder mystery, not a horror story. This was my first Virgil Flower novel. I had read a few Lucas Davenport novels earlier by the same author, and liked the fact that Davenport made a bri......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on September 21, 2016

"That f------g Flowers." 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 wom......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on January 14, 2024

Ok, now I'm starting to really like this series. As a fan of the Lucas Davenport series, it was hard not to compare the two series. The end result was Virgil's falling short every time. It pays to trust the author. In the first two books, I was missing the funny one-liners and the banter Lucas has wit......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 19, 2015

To start with, I didn't like the Virgil Flowers books. I've read all of the Lucas Davenport 'Prey' series and loved them. I'd appreciated the character of Flowers, as he appeared in the Davenport books, but I just couldn't see how any series not focused on Davenport could be as good. This was initia......more

Goodreads review by Brittany’sBoundByBloodBooks on February 10, 2025

In Rough Country, John Sandford’s Virgil Flowers is back in action, balancing his love for fishing with a murder investigation at a women-only resort in northern Minnesota. What begins as a routine case, where a woman is shot while kayaking, quickly unravels into a complex mystery filled with jealou......more

Quotes

Praise for Rough Country

“Rich, satisfying, and frequently hilarious.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

“Sandford takes literary chances, and he succeeds brilliantly here with Minnesota state cop Virgil Flowers. The characters, especially Flowers, come vividly and delightfully to life, and the dialogue is sprightly, witty, and sometimes sexy. Sandford writes entertainment that’s not to be missed. Grade: A.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer 

“Unexpected twists...Sandford excels at all the required elements of the novelist: plot, personality, and prose. The melding is masterful and produces an exquisitely paced book at once beautiful and profane, a story that fans of both crime-novel approaches can enjoy. He makes Flowers as appealing and captivating a character as always. With a confident touch, Sandford brings it all home in Rough Country.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

“An entertaining romp...Sandford has long been one of the best crime series mystery writers around. He keeps the pages turning and the dialogue snapping better than anyone this side of Elmore Leonard. An entertaining...and completely engrossing page-turner.”—The Post and Courier

“Fast-paced [and] action-packed.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“It’s a complicated case, but Virgil is up to the task, and, as always, he’s funny, smart, and tough when he needs to be.”—Publishers Weekly

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