Mad River / John Sandford / 387 pages

Sandford writes a hair-raising thriller that features one of his more interesting characters, Virgil Flowers.  Flowers is an investigator for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and struggles with many personal issues and ethical dilemmas in this story of a trio of teenage Bonnie & Clyde type characters wreaking havoc in rural Minnesota.  Yes, it's action-packed and violent and funny at times but it also raises some interesting questions about the nutcases out there...both on the right and wrong side of the law.  Virgil is a character you'd definitely like to go fishing with.  Recommended!