![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But none of them murdered Gina the opening chapter shows lovelorn exterminator David Birkmann, who’s been carrying a torch for her since their school days, killing her when she indicates in the most direct way possible that she doesn’t return his interest. ![]() Since Gina holds the power of the purse over virtually everyone in Trippton-she inherited the town’s bank on her father’s death-and the bruises on her body suggest habitual S&M play, there are lots of suspects, from Lucy and Elroy Cheever, whose business loan application she was about to deny, to heavy-equipment operator Corbel Cain, her sometime lover, to Fred Fitzgerald, who recently purchased a whip from Bernie’s Books, Candles 'n More. The night before Gina Hemming is fished from a frozen river, someone bashes her in the head with a champagne bottle shortly after a meeting of the committee to organize her 25th high school reunion. Virgil Flowers, of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, works an altogether unremarkable murder and a surprisingly inventive case on the side. ![]()
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