Eleven Days by
Donald Harstad
pbk out July 98
(4th Estate)
at £9.99
Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is called to a remote farm in Iowa. Apart from the mutilated corpse of the owner, the place is empty. Nearby, in another isolated farm, are three more bodies, each bearing signs of torture. Houseman and his colleagues embark on an investigation which peels away the secrets of this rural community, revealing the unsettling truth that evil is as alive and well in the country as it is in the city.
ELEVEN DAYS - the length of the investigation - is Harstad’s first novel. Two qualities distinguish this police procedural. One is the spare efficiency of the writing. The other is the fact that Harstad so obviously knows what he’s talking about. For more than twenty years he was a deputy sheriff in Clayton County, Iowa. When Houseman pours himself another cup of coffee and reaches for yet another doughnut, you sense Harstad is there at his shoulder.
(
Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series)
Eleven Days by
Donald Harstad