Sandford in the wings ...

Updated: July 24, 2010 - 2:02 PM

Bad Blood by John Sandford

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Well, it's been a couple of weeks since John Sandford has published one of his thrillers, so I probably shouldn't have been surprised when I was opening books the other afternoon in the basement book dungeon and out slid an advance copy of a new one -- "Bad Blood."

This is the fourth in the Virgil Flowers series, and it's set among the cornfields and small towns of southern Minnesota. It will debut on Sept. 21 from Putnam.

Sandford -- real name, John Camp -- lives in Stillwater and is a former writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Also ...

• "Power and Stride: The Nancy Burggraf Story" by Merrie Sue Holtan of Moorhead, Minn., has received first place in the National Federation of Presswomen Communications Contest's biography and autobiography category. She will be honored at the federation's annual Communications Contest Awards banquet in September.

• "Still Standing," the story of Staff Sgt. John Kriesel of Cottage Grove, has been published by Beaver's Pond Press. The book was written by Kriesel and Jim Kosmo, with a foreword by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Kriesel lost his legs in an explosion in Iraq. There will be a book launch party at 4 p.m. Tuesday on Kosmo's docked riverboat at the Padelford Riverboat Landing at Harriet Island in St. Paul.

• "The Last Hunter: An American Family Album," by Will Weaver, will be published in September by Borealis Books. Weaver, who lives in Bemidji, Minn., is the author of "A Gravestone Made of Wheat," "Red Earth, White Earth" and other books. His new book is a collection of essays about tradition and the outdoors.