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Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are ';pure reading pleasure' (Booklist). The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than othersas Virgil is about to find out.Then there's the homefront. Virgil's relationship with his girlfriend Frankie has been getting kind of serious, but when Frankie's sister Sparkle moves in for the summer, the situation gets a lot more complicated. For one thing, her research into migrant workers is about to bring her up against some very violent people who emphatically do not want to be researched. For anothershe thinks Virgil's kind of cute. ';You mess around with Sparkle,' Frankie told Virgil, ';you could get yourself stabbed.' ';She carries a knife?' ';No, but I do.'Forget a stormthis one's a tornado.

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "e;pure reading pleasure"e; (Booklist)Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "e;moribund"e; might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "e;I'll Do What I Can"e;) and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd all get rich! What could go wrong?When the dead body shows up, they find out, and that's only the beginning of their troubles--and Virgil Flowers'--as they are all about to discover all too soon.