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Known Dead: A Novel (original 1999; edition 2000)

by Donald Harstad

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Title:Known Dead: A Novel
Authors:Donald Harstad
Info:Bantam (2000), Mass Market Paperback, 400 pages
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A little unrealistic, but hugely appealing from the standpoint of portraying a mid-country sheriff, and the detailed shoot-out scenes. ( )
  cherilove | Jun 4, 2012 |
Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is part of a team conducting surveillance on a marajuana patch at a state park.

It should have been routine but something goes terribly wrong. Officer Bill Kellerman of the narcotics division and a doper are killed. At first it was thought that they killed each other but when this was not the case, Houseman was assigned to a task force to find the killers.
Investigators interview farmers in the area of the crime scene and serve papers on a farmer named Stritch who heads a militia group. He has land posted saying he would shoot uninvited officers. He is heavily in debt and thinks the police are coming to evict him.
Many plot twists tied nicely together by Harstad. This is a fun read. ( )
  mikedraper | Jul 18, 2009 |
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Donald Harstad was an Iowa deputy sheriff for 26 years, and only retired so that he could pursue his passion for writing. His first book was a well-received police mystery, Eleven Days. The same solid foundation of experience anchors Harstad's second mystery about Iowa deputy sheriff Carl Houseman, a sharp and likable 50-year-old with weight and blood pressure problems and strong opinions on every aspect of policing.

Known Dead begins with the murder of a state narcotics agent killed on Houseman's Nation County turf while staking out a marijuana patch. Blasts of gunfire from a band of mysterious shooters take out the agent and one local smalltime dealer. Then, while various federal and state agencies wrestle for control of the case, two more Nation County cops are shot down at the farm of a local extremist with links to a large militant group. As the resourceful Houseman tries to connect the shootings and keep some of the investigation in his own office, we learn all sorts of information about guns, bullets, trajectories, stakeouts, interagency rivalries, and the eating habits of cops of all kinds--taken no doubt from the author's lively memory and imagination. --Dick Adler

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A police stakeout on a marijuana field in Iowa ends in a shootout, leaving one officer and one drug dealer dead. An autopsy reveals the dealer was not killed by a police bullet, so deputy sheriff Carl Houseman sets out to investigate a local drug lord.… (more)

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