Storm Front / John Sandford / 376 pages

Storm Front features one of Sandford's well known characters, Virgil Flowers.  Flowers the son of a Lutheran Minister, covers the southern portion of Minnesota for the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.  Flowers' heart though belongs to fishing and his approach to crime solving is laugh out loud comical and down to earth.  Throw in a dying Lutheran minister who steals an ancient artifact from an archaeological dig in Israel and brings it back to Mankato planning to auction it off to the highest bidder...Hezbollah, an archaeologist who really wants to be a movie star, two bumbling Turks and assorted other crazies and the sexy and Ma Nobles who has an "itch" she wants Flowers to scratch, and you have a great and satisfying story.  John Sandford, you are amazing!