Deadline

Description:

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: School boards,  Murder,  Journalists,  Government investigators,  Corrupt practices,  Crimes against,  Fiction,  Dogs,  Investigation,  FICTION / Suspense,  Medical laboratories,  Dogs as laboratory animals,  Pet theft,  FICTION / Crime,  Virgil Flowers (Fictitious character),  Fiction, suspense,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  Minnesota, fiction,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-10-26,  New York Times bestseller,  Friendship,  Lost and found possessions,  Pets,  Secrets,  Authors,  Enquêteurs de la fonction publique,  Romans, nouvelles,  Meurtre,  Enquêtes,  Crime,  Suspense,  Virgil Flowers (Fictional character),  Governmental investigations,  Homicide,  Criminal investigation,  Thrillers,  Large type books,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Kriminalroman,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense,  Fiction, thrillers,  nyt:mass-market-paperback=2015-10-25

People: Virgil Flowers (Fictitious character)

Places: Minnesota