What writer thinks of that stuff? The easy dialogue banter is as real as talking to your friends. You have thoroughly believable and likeable characters like Johnson Johnson, who's father named him after his favorite outboard motors. I almost ran off the road at the punch line. There's a joke in this book about Mickey Mouse. You find yourself laughing out loud over some of the antics. I've read every one of the Sandford series involving both main characters: Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers, and they mesh together like a well-oiled machine. He sometimes forgets his gun, and he hates to fight. He is not capable of taking on 6 thugs and dropping them in the span of 16 seconds.
He does not turn Virgil Flowers into Jack Reacher or John Puller. You find yourself liking or disliking characters just by the way they act. Eric Conger does a great job of bringing the characters to life. The plot lines are always fresh and believable, and his knack of getting inside the head of each character makes each of them, however minor the role they play, jump off the page. His knowledge of the geography lets you feel what's it's like to live thru the cold winters in Minnesota. Sandford's ability to build the characters over the span of the series is such that you go into each new book really knowing and feeling for the people involved. Just finished listening and, once again, Virgil and crew provides a fun and interesting experience. If you found this review helpful please indicate so. He delivers crazy lines in dead pan that would have me rolling.
But either way get ready for a real "humdinger" of a story.
If you've never listened to a Flowers novel, they can be read as stand alone novels but for character development I would read/listen to them in the order they were written. If you're familiar with the Virgil Flowers series then you're already getting ready for the sarcasm, snappy comebacks and great humor his character is known for. They're turning them into little sex dolls that say things they were never supposed to say or look (especially Ken's addition). At the same time a woman from the toy company Mattel is trying to find who is messing with their Barbie line of dolls. The woman is the bank president (reason enough for many to dislike her), in the process of getting a divorce from a man questioning his sexual identity and having an S&M tryst with someone Virgil can't identify. By a bunch of women! While investigating the murder of another woman found in a frozen river.
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