description: Iowa PD Blue. Eleven Days is a fast paced, grisly, bloody and wry police procedural thriller that reads like a mixture of Fargo and The Poet. Written by a former deputy sheriff on his vacation, in eleven days, the story covers the solving of a horrific satanic cult murder in farmland Iowa in just – eleven days. The first Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman knows of the murder case that will take over his life for the next eleven days is when a call comes into his Nation County police department from an unidentified source, believed female, possibly under fifty. No call back number . "Help us," she says, "they’re killing everybody!" Spread over two remote farms amidst the cornfields of Iowa, Carl eventually finds four bodies – one man with his hand chopped off – but no sign of the female caller. Another body is on his back, legs secured to the bed wtih black cord. He’s been castrated and black wax poured into into eyes. His tongue is missing and there’s a substance around his mouth which looks like dried super glue. Female FBI Special Agent Hester Gorse comments: "You don’t suppose they tried to glue his tongue back on, do you?" Along with Hester, a dyslexic investigator called Theo, a sassy radio dispatcher called Sally, his long suffering schoolteacher wife and numerous Iowa cops who may never have encountered a murder in their lives, Carl somehow manages to collar the perpetrator in just eleven days.
language: English
title: eleven Days
titlecomplete: eleven Days
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: Fourth Estate