Virgil Flowers, the protégé of Lucas Davenport (the star of John Sandford’s New York Times #1 bestselling Prey series) returns to the spotlight in Bad Blood.

Bad Blood opens on a late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota. A farmer brings in a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator – and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he’s sure he’s dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the “accident.” Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down…and the next day the boy’s found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn’t so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncovers a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy – a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he’s seen an awful lot in his life, even he has difficulty in comprehending it…and in figuring out what to do next.

John Sandford is a pseudonym for John Camp, a former police reporter and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist whose varied passions include archaeology, art, photography, hunting and fishing.