John Sandford: Bad Blood (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
On a cold late Autumn Sunday in Southern Minnesota, a farmer bringing in his harvest of soybeans is bludgeoned around the head by a young man wielding a bat. Leaving the unconscious farmer to drown in the grain bin, the young man calls the sheriff's office to report the 'accident'.

Suspicious about the nature of the incident, Sheriff Lee Coakley quickly breaks the teenager down. But when she finds him hanging in his cell the next morning, she doubts it was remorse or guilt that led him to take his own life. In fact, she's not convinced it was a suicide at all.

Worried that she is up against a far more complicated case than first thought, Coakley calls in Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. For an investigator with his expertise, it doesn't take long for Flowers to uncover a multifamily conspiracy that has bubbled away under the surface of this sleepy Midwestern community for generations - and a series of crimes so monstrous that the small town can never be the same again.

John Sandford: Bad Blood. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9780857203991 (September, 2011), 388 p., £7.99.

John Sandford: Bad Blood (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
The brilliant new Virgil Flowers thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down... and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy-a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he's seen an awful lot in his life, even he has difficulty in comprehending it... and in figuring out what to do next.

John Sandford: Bad Blood. A Virgil Flowers Novel. Berkley Books, ISBN: 9780425243930 (September, 2011), 422 p., $9.99.

John Sandford: Bad Blood (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
On a cold late Autumn Sunday in Southern Minnesota, a farmer bringing in his harvest of soybeans is bludgeoned around the head by a young man wielding a bat. Leaving the unconscious farmer to drown in the grain bin, the young man calls the sheriff's office to report the 'accident'.

Suspicious about the nature of the incident, Sheriff Lee Coakley quickly breaks the teenager down. But when she finds him hanging in his cell the next morning, she doubts it was remorse or guilt that led him to take his own life. In fact, she's not convinced it was a suicide at all.

Worried that she is up against a far more complicated case than first thought, Coakley calls in Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. For an investigator with his expertise, it doesn't take long for Flowers to uncover a multifamily conspiracy that has bubbled away under the surface of this sleepy Midwestern community for generations - and a series of crimes so monstrous that the small town can never be the same again.

John Sandford: Bad Blood. An age-old evil runs in their veins. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9780857204813 (December, 2010), 388 p., £19.99.

John Sandford: Bad Blood (USA 2010)

From the Publisher:
The brilliant new Virgil Flowers thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down... and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy-a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he's seen an awful lot in his life, even he has difficulty in comprehending it... and in figuring out what to do next.

John Sandford: Bad Blood. A Virgil Flowers Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780399156908 (September, 2010), 388 p., $27.95.