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Holy ghost

Sandford, John, 1944- (author.). Conger, Eric, (narrator.).

Summary: Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle...and a murder...in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers. Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will...until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: `I'll Do What I Can') comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of curious people and making the townsfolk rich overnight. Why not stage a prank in Pinion and do the same? No one gets hurt and everyone gets rich. What could go wrong? And then a dead body shows up. It turns out that lots can go wrong with a get-rich-quick scheme like this one...and lots will. It'll take everything Virgil Flowers has to put things to right - before someone else dies.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525634331
  • Physical Description: sound disc
    8 sound discs (10 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Audio, ℗2018.

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note: Read by Eric Conger.
Subject: Flowers, Virgil (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Audiobooks
Minnesota -- Fiction
Genre: Mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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  • AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2018 November
    The eleventh in the Virgil Flowers series finds the investigator summoned to small-town Minnesota once again. A sniper is picking off folks who are flocking to Wheatfield to witness the recent miracle appearance of the Virgin Mary. Narrator Eric Conger confidently voices Virgil and a myriad of characters, male and female, old and young. The author's snappy dialogue requires Conger to use tone, pace, cadence, accent, and volume to deliver differentiated and credible personalities. As is typical of the Virgil Flowers books, listeners are spun around in circles as they meet interesting characters and puzzle over theories of potential motives and perpetrators. Fans of the series will find this an entertaining ride-along with that smart-talking Flowers. E.Q. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 October #1

    Wendall Holland, the mayor of Wheatfield, MN, a dying small town of about 650, and his street-smart 17-year-old friend Skinner have a brilliant idea. If the Virgin Mary appears at the local Catholic Church, it will draw crowds and money to the area. The scheme works exquisitely until a tourist is shot by a sniper. After the second shooting, the mayor calls the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Virgil Flowers is assigned the case. Virgil assumes he can easily apprehend the sniper, but that's not the case in a small community where everyone has a gun. Then a local resident is targeted and Virgil finds a body. This fast-paced novel never lets up, in violence, police investigation, or wisecracks from Virgil and his fellow officers. The suspense will draw in readers initially, but the well-developed characters, especially Holland and Skinner, along with the irreverent agents and officers, will keep readers hanging on for the dark humor and banter. VERDICT Sandford follows the nonstop action of Deep Freeze with another satisfying case for the likable Flowers. [See Prepub Alert, 4/23/18.]—Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN

    Copyright 2018 Library Journal.
  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 May #2

    In little Pinion, MN, the hapless mayor and his friend hope to increase revenue by creating a shrine around a manufactured vision of the Virgin Mary. They expect swarming pilgrims but instead get a dead body—and the services of Sandford stalwart Virgil Flowers.

    Copyright 2018 Library Journal.

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