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Where Mad River sits
- Series
- Book 6 of Virgil Flowers. See all Virgil Flowers books in order
- The book before
- Shock Wave
- The book after
- Storm Front
- Order checked
- Last checked: September 24, 2026, against penguinrandomhouse.com
What Mad River is about
The setup only, with no spoilers. Each line names the record it rests on.
- Three teenagers with no future, grudges and guns go on a killing spree across rural Minnesota, starting with a highway patrolman. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
The first person they killed was a highway patrolman
- Parts of it are filmed on their phones and passed to a TV station nearby, and Virgil Flowers joins the many officers hunting them. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down
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Genres
Topics
- Government investigators
- Spree murderers
- Teenagers
- Virgil Flowers
Places
- Minnesota
Reading ages
- Adult
Other books in Virgil Flowers
12 books listed so far
- Book 1: Dark of the Moon
- Book 2: Heat Lightning
- Book 3: Rough Country
- Book 4: Bad Blood
- Book 5: Shock Wave
- Book 7: Storm Front
- Book 8: Deadline
- Book 9: Escape Clause
- Book 10: Deep Freeze
- Book 11: Holy Ghost
- Book 12: Bloody Genius
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