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Donald Harstad (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (6 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857028708
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857028706
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 557,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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PRAISE FOR ELEVEN DAYS: "The kind of book that you start and finish in one late-night sitting." Sunday Express "A major achievement from an ex-cop; a novel that feels and smells right." Time Out "A hell of a novel, gripping and unsettling." Michael Connelly "Donald Harstad constructs a finely judged atmosphere of menace. Expertly written by a man who himself served as a law enforcement officer in Iowa, Eleven Days builds up suspense and holds it right through to the end." Irish Times "Undeniably gripping, and the contrast throughout between the trivia of existence and extreme and bloody violence is extraordinary effective." Evening Standard "Strong, salty narrative given extra muscle by sense of actuality and refusal to punch up the horrors." Literary Review "Like Patricia Cornwall, ex-cop turned novelist Donald Harstad's main claim to fame is that he knows what a pair of testicles look like when whizzed up in the blender." Independent

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Eleven Days is a wry and gripping police thriller. Written by a former deputy sheriff on his vacation, the story covers the solving of a horrific satanic cult murder in farmland Iowa in just – eleven days.

The first Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman knows of the murder case that will take over his life for the next eleven days is when a call comes into his Nation County police department from an unidentified source, believed female, possibly under fifty. No call back number. "Help us," she says, "they’re killing everybody!" Spread over two remote farms amidst the cornfields of Iowa, Carl eventually finds four bodies – one man with his hand chopped off – but no sign of the female caller. Another body is on his back, legs secured to the bed wtih black cord. He’s been castrated and black wax poured into into eyes. His tongue is missing and there’s a substance around his mouth which looks like dried super glue. Female FBI Special Agent Hester Gorse comments: "You don’t suppose they tried to glue his tongue back on, do you?" Along with Hester, a dyslexic investigator called Theo, a sassy radio dispatcher called Sally, his long-suffering schoolteacher wife and numerous Iowa cops who may never have encountered a murder in their lives, Carl somehow manages to collar the perpetrator of these horrific murders in just Eleven Days.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Mind blowing 7 April 2000
Format:Paperback
This book gave me nightmares and strange visions for weeks. It was absolutely fantastic, like you were actually living the events. Not for the weak hearted.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I was attracted to this book by the excellent opening, one of the most gripping I have ever read. The book was also widely advertised in bookshops, so I thought 'why not?'.

It tells of the investigations of a small town police force and the horrific crimes they discover. The author did not seem to shy away from gore in the way that others do, and this spurred me on. However, as the book progresses the good plot becomes too contrived. It lacks balance in the second half, with too many twists and turns. And the ending is a slight cop-out, with things less horrific than you thought.

But all in all, a good first effort.

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Starting with this (Eleven Days) I have read all 5 of Harstad's novels and have enjoyed them very much. His style really is in the minutiae of solving the crimes he portrays and this, for the most part, is most intriguing. But this story was dirty, salubrious and gripping. Well worth reading if you like the genre. Please write more like this Mr Harstad.
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superb
I read this during 10 or so consecutive lunch hours whilst working in the city... I picked it up one day and couldnt put it down, but couldnt quite afford to buy books at the time,... Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2006 by Dylan Jones
Murder in the Heartland
Donald Harstad has written a grisly and fast moving police procedural filled with well drawn characters and a likeable ‘everyman’ hero in Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman. Read more
Published on 11 April 2003
FANTASTIC
What a fantastic book! I picked it up and couldn't put it down. It had me gripped. The story was great, the characters too. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2003 by "roonetta"
Realistic and chilling
It is clear from the outset that Harstad is a proficient writer. Very quickly though the fact that shines through is that he is speaking as a police officer who has 'been there... Read more
Published on 22 May 2000
A local police thriller with enough to hold your interest.
The author develops his characters quickly but gives them a fullness which makes for easy involvment. Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2000 by garcol@msn.com
eleven days? read it in one
What a good read! The kind of book that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until you've breathed you're last over page 340. Well researched and well written.
Published on 26 Aug 1999
An unwelcoming introduction to mid-town America
Eleven Days is composed in such a manner that you are instantly gripped from page one, being thrown in to a highly descriptive and disturbing multiple murder scene from the off. Read more
Published on 25 July 1999
It's great when you find a book you just can't put down!
How often does one come across a book that has a great plot and characters that make you feel you know them? .....Not too often is the case...... Read more
Published on 14 Jun 1999
Ritual Evil In A Small Town
Mr. Harstad has harvested for his own, the Small-Town, rural America, that has seldom been seen in the detective genre --and he has done so with wit and insight. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 1998
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