One Sunday in late fall 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 T-Ball bat, 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 quickly breaks the kid down ... and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? THe sheriff's not so sure, and infact she's beginning to wonder if one of her own men might now be responsible. She has no choice but to bring in outside help, and investigator Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is her man. When Virgil investigates, though, what at first seems fairly simple, quickly becomes very complicated as he begins to uncover a multigeneration, miltifamily conspiracy a series of crimes so monstrous that, even though he's seen an awful lot in his life, Virgil has difficulty in comprehending it ... and in figuring out what to do next. Filled with brilliant plotting and compulsively readable prose that are John Sandford's hallmarks, Bad Blood is another masterpiece by one of our very best suspense writers