Book Review: Eleven Days: A Novel of the Heartland

Reviewed By: Dusty Rhoades - RAM

Eleven Days: A Novel of the Heartland     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Donald Harstad
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Police Procedural
Series: Carl Houseman # 1
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Good stuff. A police procedural set in an Iowa Sheriff's Department investigating a nasty, gruesome multiple murder, with apparently Satanic/ritual overtones.

I particularly liked the characterization in this novel. There are a number of characters in whom I can totally believe. I know people just like them in local law enforcement. And the final villain was a truly nasty piece of work, which I enjoy...I loves me a good villain.

The book falls squarely within the police procedural sub-genre, and there are points where the "procedural" aspect almost bogs down the story, but those are quite brief. On the whole, it kept me going right through.

Dusty Rhoades - RAM

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