Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.Ĭamp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. It was a good place to grow up.Ĭamp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals.

Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Virgil understands that, in small towns, no one ever outgrows high school.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. ‘A knowing portrait of small-town life layered into a very well plotted mystery. ‘Along the way to the satisfying ending, Virgil displays the rough humor and rough justice that make him such an appealing character’ Publishers Weekly on Deep Freeze * * * Praise for John Sandford and the Virgil Flower novels * * *

Because if it’s true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought it did-and every one of them is booby-trapped.īut even Flowers has no idea how strange things are going to get.

And when he discovers what connects them all, he’s almost sorry. Flowers becomes convinced that someone is keeping a list-with many more names on it. with two shots to the head and a lemon in the victim's mouth.ĭavenport needs a man he can trust on this case, and there's no one he trusts more than Virgil Flowers. What's stranger still, however, is this: two weeks ago, a body was discovered. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater, Minnesota, with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth. On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. 'When the going gets tough, try to unload it on that f****** Flowers' The second Virgil Flowers novel by internationally bestselling author John Sandford **Don't miss John Sandford's brand-new thriller Ocean Prey – out now**

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