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Eleven Days

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    About Eleven Days

    In a mesmerizing debut, cop-turned-author Donald Harstad uses real-life events to paint a jarring picture of crime in America’s heartland–where two-stoplight towns no longer offer refuge from modern-day brutality.

    Life in Maitland, Iowa, is usually predictable, even for a cop. But all that changes the day Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman’s dispatcher receives the terrifying 911 call. The day cops find the mutilated bodies at a remote farmhouse. The first of eleven days Carl will never forget.

    As hotshot investigators fly in from New York, Carl and his fellow cops use old-fashioned detective work to piece together clues. But to turn suspicions into suspects, Carl must search among his closest friends to find a killer who has shocked and bewildered cops who’d thought they’d seen it all. And before it’s over, Carl will be forced into an unrelenting spiral of chaos, coming face-to-face with evil he never dreamed could exist in Maitland…or anywhere else.

    About Eleven Days

    In a mesmerizing debut, cop-turned-author Donald Harstad uses real-life events to paint a jarring picture of crime in America’s heartland–where two-stoplight towns no longer offer refuge from modern-day brutality.

    Life in Maitland, Iowa, is usually predictable, even for a cop. But all that changes the day Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman’s dispatcher receives the terrifying 911 call. The day cops find the mutilated bodies at a remote farmhouse. The first of eleven days Carl will never forget.

    As hotshot investigators fly in from New York, Carl and his fellow cops use old-fashioned detective work to piece together clues. But to turn suspicions into suspects, Carl must search among his closest friends to find a killer who has shocked and bewildered cops who’d thought they’d seen it all. And before it’s over, Carl will be forced into an unrelenting spiral of chaos, coming face-to-face with evil he never dreamed could exist in Maitland…or anywhere else.

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    About Donald Harstad

    Donald Harstad is a 26-year veteran of the Clayton County Sheriff’s Department in northeastern Iowa, and the author of the acclaimed novels Eleven Days and Known Dead. A former deputy sheriff, he lives with his wife, Mary, in Elkader, Iowa.

    About Donald Harstad

    Donald Harstad is a 26-year veteran of the Clayton County Sheriff’s Department in northeastern Iowa, and the author of the acclaimed novels Eleven Days and Known Dead. A former deputy sheriff, he lives with his wife, Mary, in Elkader, Iowa.

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Mass Market Paperback | $7.99
    Published by Bantam
    May 04, 1999 | 368 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553581485

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Bantam
    Dec 07, 2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9780307808905

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    Praise

    "A hell of a first novel… Gripping and unsettling."
    –Michael Connelly

    "With one startling twist after another, this grisly but cunningly sophisticated story is truly frightening."
    —San Francisco Chronicle

    "Downright explosive! The descriptions of the police work rival Wambaugh’s best."
    —Publishers Weekly


    "Harstad…advances the scary (and perversely entertaining) notion that people are just as cuckoo in the heartland as they are in the wicked city."
    —The New York Times Book Review

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