There are 12 books in the Virgil Flowers series. The newest book is Bloody Genius which came out in 2019.

The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

"Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford's Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on…
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Heat Lightning

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Virgil Flowers hunts a killer responsible for a strange string of murders in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.

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…

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Rough Country

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The murder of a successful advertising executive leads Detective Virgil Flowers to the unlikely scene of the crime: a peaceful and bucolic wooded resort with as many suspects as it has secrets...

While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers receives a call…

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Bad Blood

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The fourth thrilling novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford's Virgil Flowers series.

Two bodies in two days. One is murder. The other is suicide. Virgil Flowers never imagined that discovering the connection would lead him into the perverse history of the Minnesota farm community, and almost…

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Shock Wave

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The fifth Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford

A billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small Minnesota river town for its next outlet. Two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster.…

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Mad River

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Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns.

The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts…

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Storm Front

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The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series.

In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You’re about to get a visitor. It’s an Israeli cop, and she’s tailing a man who’s smuggled…

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Deadline

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**Don't miss John Sandford's brand-new thriller Ocean Prey - out now**

The eighth Virgil Flowers novel by internationally bestselling author John Sandford

Barns, the chairman, looked around the room and said, 'Okay. We can do this. Let's see a show of hands. It's unanimous, or it's prison. Do we kill…

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Escape Clause

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Virgil Flowers faces double trouble in this exceptional thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series

Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two.

The first comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large Siberian tigers have vanished…

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Deep Freeze

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Class reunions: a time for memories - good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly - in the thrilling new novel in the number one New York Times-bestselling series

Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated…

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Holy Ghost

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**Don't miss John Sandford's brand-new thriller Ocean Prey - out now**

The eleventh Virgil Flowers novel by internationally bestselling author John Sandford

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle... and a murder... in the wickedly entertaining thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers. Discover why Stephen King calls John Sandford 'one of…

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Bloody Genius

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**Don't miss John Sandford's brand-new thriller Ocean Prey - out now**

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back - and his mouth - as he investigates a culture war turned deadly in the latest page-turner from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers.

At the local state university, renowned Professor Quill…