Deep Freeze by John SandfordMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jacket Blurb: Class reunions: a time for memories—good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly—in this New York Times bestselling thriller from John Sandford.
Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt—and as it turned out, homicidal—local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been found dead, frozen in a block of ice.
There’s a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty-five years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into twenty years’ worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. In the process, one thing becomes increasingly clear to him.
It’s true what they say: High school is murder.
Read as an audio book.
LOVED this latest installment! I'm from Minnesota, I've been ice fishing, I've experienced the -3*F, I know what it's like to bomb around on a snowmobile, I know what it's like to pull all those layers of clothes on. Not many authors write about winter - and Sandford nailed it! ...of course he did, he's from here.
Virgil is back in Trippton, where the President of the bank was found dead in the river by the sewage plant and someone is making pornographic Barbies. You, the reader, will know who the murderer is, and it is an absolute HOOT watching Virgil go around and interview people in truly classic Virgil style. There is one point in the book a character totally nails the small town rumor mill, that some how ends with the Sheriff leading a Satanic cult. Oh my gosh, I was laughing my ass off!
I don't know how Sandford does it, but he manages to capture people to a "T", the wild speculation, the internal panic, and the lies they come up with - to see it all spelled out on the page by such an accomplished author is delightful.
The only thing I didn't like was the last paragraph. Didn't care for the direction that points future Virgil books in and was a bit too parallel to the Davenport books. Yup, now you have to read it to find out what the hell I'm talking about.
If you've been reading the Virgil Flowers series, you'll probably enjoy this one. Recommended.
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