Deadline: A Virgil Flowers Novel

"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 ... 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"--