num_pages: 317
description: A Long American crime fiction’s best-kept secret–as if Michael Connelly hadspent twenty-six years as a small-town cop in Iowa–has written hisbreakout book.Brief The people of Nation County, Iowa–a heartland town straight out of aCoen Brothers movie or a John Cougar Mellencamp song–practice aunique brand of American stoicism. You betcha. And they rely upontheir public servants to shield them from the horrors of the outsideworld. Carl Houseman, deputy sheriff of the 750-square-mile county,dedicates his life to keeping his citizenry so secure that you can leavethe door unlocked at home and walk his streets with a big hello and asmile to every stranger.  On Houseman’s watch, the mounting terrorsof the new world order stay far away.But December 2001 could change all of that. Outsiders are everywhere.  The meat plant is now kosher and there are more Jewish fellows percapita than any other place in the country. Hispanic and other foreignworkers, with dubious immigration papers, have taken jobs from thelocals. Eighteen other languages are now spoken within the tiny region,and Carl and company can’t speak a single one.  Then the eighty-odd-year-old Heinman brothers’ call comes in fromtheir farm down in Frog Hollow.  They’ve witnessed an execution-stylekilling not one hundred yards from their pig feeders. The victim’s awfuldead and half his head’s been blown off. The boys haven’t seen nothinglike it since Normandy. When Carl gets to the scene, he believes them.What follows is a masterful police procedural thriller–think JoeWambaugh crossed with Fargo–written with a singular and authenticvoice that has electrified readers around the world.
language: English
title: A Long December
titlecomplete: A Long December (Carl Houseman #5)
genres: Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 266
series: Carl Houseman
publisher: Rugged Land