The Big Thaw
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781574903904 (157490390X)
Publish date: December 28th 2002
Publisher: Thomas T. Beeler Publisher
Edition language: English
Series: Carl Houseman (#3)
I love police procedural set in areas beyond LA and NYC. This one, set in Iowa, is a strong book and series. Carl Houseman is a great character and you really get the sense of being there in Iowa with Carl chasing down clues, visiting with cops, and finally crawling into bed after seemingly endless ...
Not quite as good as the previous two books in the series. While I did like the rural Iowa setting and very realistic police procedural aspects in this book the plot was just a bit too out there for me.
Carl Houseman, a deputy sheriff in Nation County, Iowa keeps watching the Weather Channel as the worm-like jet stream moves gradually north bringing the promise of a January thaw. In the meantime, he and his colleagues, not to mention the FBI and Iowa DCI, have their hands full trying to solve ...
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