Title: The big thaw
First published: 2000
Description: 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.From the Paperback edition.
Subjects: Police, Casinos, Fiction, Suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Carl Houseman (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Iowa, fiction
Places: Iowa