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The Big Thaw

By Donald Harstad

By Donald Harstad

By Donald Harstad

By Donald Harstad

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Part of Carl Houseman

Part of Carl Houseman

Mass Market Paperback $6.99

May 01, 2001 | ISBN 9780553583038 *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program

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Aug 19, 2009 | ISBN 9780307415257

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    About The Big Thaw

    A killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland….

    The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an empty farmhouse. Two males — brothers — both killed by bullets from a Russian automatic fired at close range. The cops have a suspect: a man Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman busted five years earlier and the county’s lead suspect in a series of recent robberies.

    Houseman knows they have the wrong guy. He also knows they’ve got something bigger than a burglary gone bad … especially when the FBI starts showing up in Maitland. The brutal double homicide is just the tip of the iceberg in a case where a killer’s trail keeps disappearing like footprints in freshly fallen snow, and where one bad break can send a good cop into a deep freeze.

    About The Big Thaw

    A killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland….

    The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an empty farmhouse. Two males — brothers — both killed by bullets from a Russian automatic fired at close range. The cops have a suspect: a man Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman busted five years earlier and the county’s lead suspect in a series of recent robberies.

    Houseman knows they have the wrong guy. He also knows they’ve got something bigger than a burglary gone bad … especially when the FBI starts showing up in Maitland. The brutal double homicide is just the tip of the iceberg in a case where a killer’s trail keeps disappearing like footprints in freshly fallen snow, and where one bad break can send a good cop into a deep freeze.

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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 | $6.99
    Published by Bantam
    May 01, 2001 | 416 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553583038

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Bantam
    Aug 19, 2009 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9780307415257

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    Praise

    "Harstad punches all the paranoia buttons."
    — The New York Times Book Review

    "Compelling … [with a] spectacular finale … Harstad writes ‘cop talk’ that’s not only believable but often (intentionally) funny."
    — Publishers Weekly

    "Harstad gets better and better with each book."
    — Library Journal

    "Escape the urban thriller to the heartland with Harstad, a real rising star."
    — Booknews from The Poisoned Pen

    "Plenty of laughs, skewed violence, and marvelous takes on how weird Iowa winters can be — in the third, and best, procedural featuring easygoing Nation County Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman, from a former Iowa deputy sheriff who knows the territory inside out."
    — Kirkus Reviews


    Also by Donald Harstad:

    Eleven Days
    Known Dead

    And look for the new Carl Houseman novel from Donald Harstad coming from Doubleday in hardcover in January 2002

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