Deadline

About this book

In southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to a close. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether a local reporter should die. And the vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is doing a favor for a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier -- a team of dognappers supplying medical labs -- when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found -- and the victim is a local reporter.

Subjects

amerikanisches englisch

authors

corrupt practices

crime

crimes against

criminal investigation

dogs

dogs as laboratory animals

enquêtes

enquêteurs de la fonction publique

fiction

fiction / crime

fiction / suspense

fiction, suspense

fiction, thrillers

fiction, thrillers, general

fiction, thrillers, suspense

friendship

governmental investigations

government investigators

homicide

investigation

journalists

kriminalroman

large type books

lost and found possessions

medical laboratories

meurtre

minnesota, fiction

murder

new york times bestseller

nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-10-26

nyt:mass-market-paperback=2015-10-25

pets

pet theft

romans, nouvelles

school boards

secrets

suspense

thrillers

virgil flowers (fictional character)

virgil flowers (fictitious character)