• Bad Blood

  • A Virgil Flowers Novel
  • By: John Sandford
  • Narrated by: Eric Conger
  • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,382 ratings)

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Bad Blood

By: John Sandford
Narrated by: Eric Conger
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Publisher's summary

Thriller Award for Best Hard Cover Novel, 2011

The brilliant new Virgil Flowers thriller from the number-one New York Times-best-selling author.

One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings 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 uncover 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.

Stemming crime: listen to another Virgil Flowers novel.
©2010 John Sandford (P)2010 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“Flowers is a fun character, smart and honest with a healthy supply of cynicism and snark...a thoroughly engaging, suspenseful, satisfying story.” (The Washington Examiner)

“Sandford’s exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers. [His] biggest...case to date.” (Publishers Weekly)

"A Pandora’s box of multiple murders, criminal behavior…and revelations of deviancy that go back generations. As usual, Sandford delivers a great mystery with action, suspense, humor, and, yes, sex. Virgil always gets his man, but he also gets the girl. Good reading.” (Booklist)

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  • JW
  • 09-23-11

Not for the discerning reader

The story is decent, but there are too many times when I seem to understand the scene better than the author. The author seems to sometimes forget who's in the room. Those of us who listen to books know exactly who's in the scene. I guess I'm just not a Sandford fan. I hate it when I read or listen to a book and find myself rolling my eyes at the writing.

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Good Listen

This book was very interesting and entertaining. The characters were great and kept my interest throughout. I highly recommend this one.

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Well done

Like the story, like the narration. I didn't miss Davenport as much as I thought I would - Virgil is becoming more interesting!

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First flowers

This is the very first Virgil Flowers book I listened to and I am hooked.

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  • kc
  • 02-12-23

my favorite of Virgil Flowers yet!

although difficult subject matter this is my favorite of the series of read so far - this was on the edge of your seat exciting at the end - really enjoyed it

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Sounds Familiar.

The story seems to copy a “ whodunnit” titled World of Spirit. It is not verbatim, but close.

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Inflection

The narrator used the right amount of inflections to keep my attention. Author is always stellar and story line flows.

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Great read

I like all of the books by John Sanford but this is one of my favorites.

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Engrossing story; favorite new audio reader!

I'm a fan of John Sandford books, yes; now I'm a fan of Eric Conger's narration, too. Enjoyed both the story and the narration; always waiting for the next Virgil Flowers story...

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Bad Blood

This was a good book but I have read better from John Sandford. It was not his best but was worth the time and was good. There were times I thought it needed to move to another setting but I guess it could not because of the content. It did not move as fast as other books from this author.

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