First Edition, October 2017, first printing, 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, SIGNED ON the second otherwise blank page by the author, an otherwise new, unread, unworn, unopened, unmarked hardcover, with an equally fine unclipped ($29.00 top, 1710 bottom, front flap) dust jacket, from Putnam. By John Sandford. A Virgil Flowers Novel. Sticker on the front jacket states: SIGNED COPY. ISBN 978-0-525-53454-9.
Class reunions: a time for memories—good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly—in this New York Times bestselling thriller from John Sandford.Â
Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt—and as it turned out, homicidal—local school board, and now the town’s back in view with more alarming news: A woman’s been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There’s a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into twenty years’ worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. In the process, one thing becomes increasingly clear to him. It’s true what they say: High school is murder.