by Donald Harstad
Carl Houseman is a night shift deputy sheriff in Nation County, Iowa. Not the sort of place you would expect to find a house full of horrifically maimed bodies and signs of Satanism. A frantic call brings the law to the scene and for the next 11 days the investigation seeks the responsible party. Th...
This is a spell-binding police procedural, Harstad's first novel. According to the cover, it was based on real events, and Harstad spent twenty-six years as a deputy sheriff in Iowa where the story takes place. (Amanda White, who knows the area, tells me the characters and scenes are very realistic....