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 Eleven Days - Donald Harstad
 Eleven Days - Donald Harstad ... 1999-05-06 by Fourth Estate LtdNewest Review: ... be difficult to pick up. One passage that sticks in the mind comes close to the start of the book when a number of different ... more ... police officers are communicating via their radios. All of them are referred to by number, making it hard to work out who is talking to whom. Such conversations are also liberally littered with terms like 10-34, 10-27, 10-16 - police shorthand for specific events or incidents. Whilst this strengthens the overall sense of realism, it can be a little dense for a civilian population unfamiliar with such terms.
Plot-wise, Harstad proves a more than capable story teller. Initially, I feared I was going to struggle, as El...more |
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Eleven Days - Donald Harstad: Eleven Days was all it took (1137 words)
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It's always a pleasure to read new authors. Even if the book itself doesn't live up to expectations, it's good to branch out and read someone different. So it was I approached the debut novel of Donald Harstad with considerable interest. The book revolves around the investigation by a local sheriff's department of four murders with overtones of satanic rituals. The subsequent eleven day police investigation (hence the title) starts to go down some very dark and dangerous paths. The first thing that strikes you about Eleven Days is the incredible sense of realism. Despite the supernatural overtones to the plot, it always feels like a genuine police ... Read the complete review
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