They've sent the Los Angeles-based private investigator Margaret Griffin to serve a cease-and-desist order to an elusive Jesse McGovern, the only name they can connect to the knock-offs. As Virgil starts asking around, he soon discovers that there are about 25 years of drama and bad blood that might very well have culminated in Gina’s death.Īdd to this another case the governor himself wants Virgil to assist with: The Mattel Toy Company has discovered that someone based in Trippton is manufacturing sex toys based on their Barbie and Ken dolls. He successfully bribes Virgil into investigating the death, which looks to be connected to Hemming’s upcoming 25th high school reunion. He’s on vacation, but his boss, Jon Duncan, knows of Virgil’s history with the town of Trippton where Gina Hemming lived. So when her body is ice-fished out of the local river a few days later, even he is flummoxed by the news.Įnter the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s Virgil Flowers. Instead, he staged her death as a fall down her stairs. It had been an accident, but he’d been too overcome with shame to do the right thing and call it in. The 10th Virgil Flowers mystery opens with our grief-stricken killer going over the death of banker Gina Hemming in his mind. Deep Freeze by John Sandford is the 10th book in the Virgil Flowers series, where Virgil finds out that class reunions are a time for memories-good, bad, and deadly (available October 17, 2017).
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