Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase âsmall town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will⊠until the mayor of sorts comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of curious people and making the townsfolk rich overnight. Why not stage a prank in Pinion and do the same? What could go wrong? And then a dead body shows up. It turns out that lots can go wrong with a get-rich-quick scheme like this one⊠and lots will. It'll take everything Virgil Flowers has to put things to right â before someone else dies.