Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago.

Working the murders, Flowers becomes convinced that someone is keeping a list—with many more names on it. And when he discovers what connects them all, he’s almost sorry. 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.

Librarian's note: the settings, characters, etc. have been done for most if not all the Virgil Flowers series: 1. Dark of the Moon, 2007; 2. Heat Lightning, 2008; 3. Rough Country, 2009; 4. Bad Blood, 2010; 5. Shock Wave, 2011; 6. Mad River, 2012; 7. Storm Front, 2013; 8. Deadline, 2014; 9. Escape Clause, 2016; 10. Deep Freeze, 2017; 11. Holy Ghost, 2018; 12. Bloody Genius, 2019; plus the following co-billed with Lucas Davenport: 13. Ocean Prey, 2021; 14. Righteous Prey, 2022; 15. Judgment Prey, 2023, and 16. Lethal Prey, 2025.