Holy Ghost
John Sandford
Penguin Publishing Group
<b><b>Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle&#8212;and a murder&#8212;in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (</b><b><i>Booklist</i></b><b>)</b></b><br>Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would&#8212;until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd all get rich! What could go wrong?<br>When the dead body shows up, they find out, and that's only the beginning of their troubles&#8212;and Virgil Flowers'&#8212;as they are all about to discover all too soon.</br></br>