Sandford's lastest novel. I finally got it from the library after several weeks of waiting. He is still my favorite author for this genre. I now have read 20 to 25 of his books. What keeps me interested is the dialogue and characters and the small asides or little deviations which have little connection with the main plot but which are refreshing and make the characters more real. While the plots are good enough, they are the standard stories of mostly good guys, bad guys and really evil guys, along with slightly rogue cops and often an irregular but satisfying justice.
A woman wins the Democratic primary in the state of Minnesota. She is at her victory party:
"In what would have been an expansive family room, if Taryn had had a family, all the white folks and the necessary number of blacks and browns were cuttin' a rug, if a lot of really stiff heirs and fund managers and entrepreneurs and politicians could, in fact, cut a rug."
And later, at the end of the story, the denouement: "For a political gathering, there was a remarkable lack of even symbolic amity. The governor shook hands with everybody, but nobody shook hands with anybody else."
Irregular justice: "She relaxed her fingers, and the watch dropped like a golden steak through the grey light of winter, and quarter million dollars disappeared into the black water below the bridge."
Another thing I like about his writing is that he describes weather, seasons, the north woods and the Midwest and I know exactly what he is talking about...
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