Sandford, John

Con artists Kidd and Luellen target the small town of Longstreet, Mississippi, at the request of an African American rights activist, to get the mayor to resign, and their plan seems perfect until murder, scandal, and love get in the way.

Lucas Davenport is called to the scene of a murder only to discover secrets piled upon secrets.

"Virgil Flowers, tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's, kicked around for awhile before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehansion. First it was the Army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport brought him into the BCA, promising him, 'We'll only give you the hard stuff.' He's been doing the hard stuff for three years now--but never anything like this."--front flyleaf.

Clara Rinker is one of the best hit women in the world, but when a defense attorney wants a rival killed and a witness survives, Clara feels her life falling apart, and the only way she thinks she can save it is to kill anyone who is even remotely connected to the case.

Lucas Davenport has the opportunity to investigate a cold case, which he first heard about years earlier and was not convinced should have been closed, when the bodies of two young girls are found during a house demolition.

Lucas Davenport agrees to help a Wisconsin sheriff solve multiple murders in a remote wooded area. Both men are challenged by an alien evil.

Virgil Flowers, a detective with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is called to investigate when protests against the building of a superstore PyeMart in a Minnesota river town turn deadly, with bombs being placed in PyeMart headquarters, as well as at the building site.

Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run down three teenagers with dead-end lives who are on a crime spree in Minnesota and who think they are just like Bonnie and Clyde, and their sidekick.