DARK of the MOON (Virgil Flowers #1)(audiobook)(abridged) by John Sandford

 









Published by Penguin Audio in 2007.
Read by Eric Conger.
Duration: 6 hours, 5 minutes.
Abridged.

Synopsis:

Virgil Flowers works for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and has been brought in to the small town of Bluestem, Minnesota to investigate a double murder. Flowers was picked for this job because he is a great investigator and he grew up in Bluestem.

On his way into town, he comes across a gigantic house fire. He recognizes it as the mansion of the richest man in town. The next morning, they discover that it is also the scene of a homicide.

As Flowers starts his investigation there is yet another murder and the list of suspects keeps getting longer and longer...

My Review:

This series was highly recommended to me. It's a spinoff from the much larger (30+ books) "Prey" series featuring Lucas Davenport. Davenport appears in this series as Flowers' supervisor. 

The author, John Sandford
This book is abridged and I do believe that the abridgment hurt the story. About 40% of the book has been removed and it leaves minor plot holes all over the book. Normally, I don't listen to or read abridgments, but my library only had the abridged version. I am rating this book 3 stars out of 5. Normally, I wouldn't bother to continue with a series that has a 3 star rating to start it off, but I am willing to listen to the 2nd book in this series if I can find an unabridged version. I figure the author included all of that extra stuff to make the story better. 

This (abridged) version of the audiobook can be found on Amazon.com here: DARK of the MOON (Virgil Flowers #1) by John Sandford.

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