Virgil Flowers Heads North to Solve a Puzzling Murder - and Finds That the Country is Very Rough Indeed. While Competing in a Fishing Tournament in a Remote Area of Northern Minnesota, Flowers Gets a Call From Lucas Davenport Asking Him to Investigate a Murder at a Nearby Resort, Where a Woman Has Been Shot While Kayaking. the Resort is for Women Only a Place to Relax, Get Fit, Recover From Plastic Surgery and Commune With Nature. As Flowers Starts to Ask Questions, He Finds a Web of Connections Between the People at the Resort, the Victim and Some Local Women, Notably a Talented Country Singer. and the More He Digs, the More He Discovers the Resort to Be a Hotbed of Jealousy, Blackmail, Greed, Anger and Fear. and Then He Discovers That This is Not the First Murder, That There Was a Second, Seemingly Unrelated Killing the Year Before. and That There's About to Be a Third, Definitely Related One, Any Time Now. and As for the Fourth ...Well, Virgil Had Better Hope He Can Catch The