Heat Lightning

Homicide Detective Virgil Flowers doesn't think much can surprise him any more. He's wrong. It's a hot, humid night in Minnesota and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives when the phone rings. It's Lucas Davenport. There's a body in Stillwater, two shots to the head - and a lemon in the victim's mouth. Exactly like the body they found last week. The more Flowers works the murders, the more convinced he is that someone's keeping a list - and that list could have a lot more names on it. If Flowers could only find out what connects them all . . . But when he does start to piece the clues together, he realizes that this case leads down a lot more trails than he'd originally thought - and every one of them is booby-trapped. 'Few do it better than Sandford' Daily Telegraph 'A series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air' Daily Mirror