Donald Harstad
Donald Harstad | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 (age 80–81) |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Period | 1999–present |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Subject | Crime, Rural Iowa |
| Notable works | Eleven Days, Big Thaw |
Donald Harstad is an American novelist and former police officer specializing in crime fiction and police procedurals. Prior to taking up writing, he had a 26-year career with the Sheriff's Department of Clayton County, Iowa, retiring as a Deputy Sheriff.[1] His first novel, Eleven Days, was loosely based on a case he worked on during that time, and he is known for drawing on his career in law enforcement for details of police and investigative procedure.
All of his novels are set in "Nation County", a fictional rural county in Iowa, and include many of the same characters, primarily centering on police officer Carl Houseman, a loose analog for Harstad himself. His novels have appeared in nine languages.[2][3]
Harstad lives in Elkader, Iowa, with his wife of 40 years, his former high school sweetheart with whom he has one daughter. In a 2002 interview, he said that he has always been fascinated by the people mixed up in matters that come to the attention of the police, and as a novelist he is looking at how chains of bad choices lead to outcomes.[4]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]Carl Houseman series
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Other novels
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Anthologies and collections
[edit | edit source]| Anthology or Collection | Contents | Publication
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Publisher | ISBN |
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| An Apple for the Creature[7] | Academy Field Trip | Oct 2012 | Ace
Penguin Group Jo Fletcher Books Wheeler Publishing Brilliance Audio |
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References
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- ^ Communication with Don Harstad.
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- ^ New York Times book review, August 9, 1999, "Known Dead" by Donald Harstad, reviewed by Richard Bernstein
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Random House: publisher's page on Harstad. Limited: it fails to list some of the books for which they produce digital media.
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