num_pages: 368
description: 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.
language: English
title: Eleven Days
titlecomplete: Eleven Days (Carl Houseman)
genres: Fiction, Cult Classics, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Police, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 1805
series: Carl Houseman
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Bantam