John Sandfordin jännärissä selvitetään pikkukaupungissa tapahtunutta murhatapausta, jossa rikoksen uhrista ei juuri mitään hyvää sanottavaa löydy: Dark of the moon (Pocket Books, 2008; ISBN 978-1-84739-185-8).
Kirjan päähenkilö on juttelee nokkelasti ja saa selville kaikenlaista puheensolinansa ohessa, ja tarina rullaa paikoittain eteenpäin varsin mallikkaasti, mutta sitä ei voi piilottaa että melkolailla tyhjänpäiväinen on romaanin kuvaama maailma, eikä kerronnassa ole mitään erityistä omaperäisyyttä, ja kirjan luettuaan ei ollut juuri mitään muistikuvia siitä mitä tuli luettua.
Virgil Flowers — tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's — had kicked around a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport had brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff."
He'd been doing the hard stuff for three years now — but never anything like this.
In the small town of Bluestem, where everybody knows everybody, a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames, its owner, a man named Judd, trapped inside. There is a lot of reason to hate him, Flowers discovers. Years ago, Judd had perpetrated a scam that'd driven a lot of local farmers out of business, even to suicide. There are also rumors swirling around: of some very dicey activities with other men's wives; of involvement with some nutcase religious guy; of an out-of-wedlock daughter. In fact, Flowers concludes, you'd probably have to dig around to find a person who didn't despise him.
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