nA #1 New York Times Bestseller nVirgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of pure reading pleasure (Booklist). n nWheatfield, Minnesota: a metropolis of six hundred souls and change, for which the word moribund might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: Ill Do What I Can) and his precocious teenage buddy come up with a scheme to put Wheatfield on the map. Should something dramatic occur--say, that the apparition of the Virgin Mary miraculously appeared at the local Catholic Church--the whole town would be turned into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things. The town would get rich What could go wrong? n nThen the shootings begin. And as they--and Virgil Flowers--are about to discover, thats only the beginning of their troubles. . . .n