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CODE 61: maintain radio silence. someone may be listening.
Investigating the apparent suicide of a colleague’s niece, Iowa Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is startled to uncover a group that transforms the dark fantasies of vampire legend into grisly reality: they ritualistically drink small amounts of one another’s blood. As Carl is drawn deeper into this unnerving world, it becomes clear that the dead woman may have been the victim of a twenty-first-century Dracula.
The prime suspect, Dan Peale, is a sinister presence within the group--a man some say drinks blood and never, ever dies. It’s an outlandish, heinous theory, but then suspicions are bolstered by rumors of a card-carrying vampire hunter who is also pursuing Peale. All too soon, Houseman finds himself scrambling to track a vampire--before he kills again.
- Sales Rank: #1575342 in Books
- Published on: 2003-01-01
- Released on: 2003-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 1.20" w x 4.20" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 480 pages
From Publishers Weekly
A call to a Peeping Tom incident starts Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman on his strangest case yet in this nicely low-key but compelling page-turner. True, the Iowa lawman encountered Satanists in his debut, Eleven Days (1998), but the perp described hanging in thin air outside the upper story window looks like Bela Lugosi. When a body drained of blood is reported in a rural mansion, Houseman realizes this investigation isn't going to be routine, or easy. More bodies pile up, in Iowa and across the Mississippi in Wisconsin (with a fellow cop noting, "Vampire. Suspect that weird has to be from your side of the river"). Police radio chatter "Ten-four, Comm. 'I'll be ten-seventy-six to the scene'" and details of the manhunt could not be more authentic, since the author (Known Dead; The Big Thaw) spent 26 years in law enforcement. He even includes a glossary of ten codes for the curious. With laconic masterstrokes, Harstad complicates his plot with the arrival on the scene of a professional vampire hunter, problems with a disgruntled subordinate and Houseman's introduction to the sexual underworld of blood sports. Series regulars such as investigator Hester Gorse and Old Knockle do their turns, with officer Sally Wells copping the funniest moments why not bring some garlic on the stake-out, just in case? The suspect is supposed to be a vampire. Harstad has crafted another engrossing entry in one of the best new police procedural series.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Carl Houseman, primary detective for the Nation County Sheriff's Department, is called out to the apparent suicide of his boss's niece. After a careful crime scene investigation and a thorough autopsy, it is clear that Edie Younger could not have cut her own throat. The wound is very similar to that of a young man found dead in nearby Wisconsin. To complicate matters, the dead man's girlfriend had reported seeing a vampire-like creature outside her window. As Houseman and Iowa State Special Agent Hester Gorse grapple with people who actually believe that one of them is a real vampire, the story becomes a picture-perfect police procedural. Everything is here the painstaking search for evidence, the questioning of suspects and witnesses, the hours spent in the rain on stakeout, and the attention to the rules of law. This fourth book in the series by Harstad, a former deputy sheriff with 26 years of experience, is packed with suspense, heart-stopping action, and haunting scenes. For all fiction collections. Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-Univ. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Only a writer of considerable narrative gifts could make a vampire invasion of a down-at-the-heels Mississippi River town in Iowa convincing--not just convincing but downright chilling. Harstad, in his fourth police procedural, pulls it off easily, thanks largely to his hero and narrator, Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman, of Nation County, Iowa. It is Houseman's straightforward, even deadpan narrative voice that makes it possible for us to believe in the local vampires, who peer into windows and leave blood-drained corpses in bathtubs. Houseman sprinkles his narrative with wry comments on his own inadequacies, one of which, his fear of heights, is front and center at this book's beginning, as he is summoned to a decaying house, crazily perched on a bluff over the Mississippi, on an attempted entry call. Focused on his fear, Houseman pays little attention to the woman's charge that a vampire was peering in at her. That changes when two bodies are found in the next 48 hours, one across the river in Wisconsin, the other in Iowa, in a small-town mansion. Both victims have deep neck wounds, forcing Houseman to investigative the unthinkable. Initially, the other cops treat both the usually sensible Houseman and a professional vampire hunter who joins the hunt as nuts, but even they become more and more spooked as local Goths make their tastes known. A terrific read--by turns, funny, eerie, and insightful. Connie Fletcher
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Yes, but ...
By Charlotte Vale-Allen
Here is a book that would have been far better served if the acknowledgments had come at the end, rather than at the beginning. Since I never read flap copy (it's either badly written or gives away the entire plot), the acknowledgments page in Code Sixty-One basically gives the game away. With the subject of vampires clearly stated on that page (making this book sound like a fantasy or horror novel) it was only because I am such an admirer of Harstad's work that I was willing to continue reading.
That said and that misplaced (albeit well-intentioned) page notwithstanding, this is another nicely done book in the Houseman series. The various law enforcement people are well-drawn, particularly the deeply annoying Borman. And the young people who live in The Mansion and whose personal sorrows make them susceptible to belief in the unbelievable are written with sympathy, understanding and humor.
The villains of the piece are equally well-drawn, leaving one to ponder on the pitfalls of wealth, sexual aberrance and extreme delusion (to the point of madness). As always in Harstad's books, the narrative moves along at a good clip and there are enough quirky characters (good and bad) to populate a small town. There are however a couple of problems I had with this book. The first is that there is no mention of what became of Alicia Meyer, whose 911 call starts this novel. And secondly, although it's interesting enough, there's way too much time spent in the narrative and more information on 10 codes (police radio info) than is necessary. After a time, the radio communications got in the way of the narrative. Given that the author includes a bibliography of these codes in the back of the book, the narrative wouldn't have suffered from some judicious editing of these calls back and forth.
As a writer, Harstad is never mean-spirited, and his books reflect that. Code Sixty-One is no exception. It is compellingly readable.
Recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Another Harstad Success!!
By Anonymous
I have read all 3 of Harstad's previous novels, and enjoyed them all immensely. I have to admit that when I heard that this one was about vampires, I almost decided not to buy it. What a mistake that would have been! Harstad comes through again with a story that is captivating, and filled with twists and turns. He has a unique way of drawing you in, and keeping you guessing.
Probably my favorite part of the book, and the way he writes, is that he will occasionally drop just enough of a hint to keep you wondering about something for 40 or 50 pages, and then give you the answer. He does this in Code 61 with information about the house that the story takes place in. What's on the locked 3rd floor? Why should they drive for 4 hours to get a copy of the blueprints of the house? Both are questions you'll be asking as you read the book, and you won't be disappointed when he finally delivers the answers.
I highly recommend this, and all of the Harstad novels. He was a cop for 20+ years, and his experience comes out in his writing. You won't be disappointed!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Sterling Value in an Unassuming Package
By G. Passantino
I stumbled on Donald Hardstad in his first novel, this is his fourth. He just keeps getting better. Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman, of Nation County, Iowa isn't overly impressed with himself, and I think he would probably be surprised that he has admirers nationwide. It is in his unassuming, sometimes droll (but never slapstick)assessment of the world of middle America -- specifically, homicide in middle America -- that draws the reader in and keeps him turning the pages until the wee hours of the morning. The gift of subtle underplay is rare in contemporary fiction, especially of the mystery/suspense genre, and Hardstad is a master. From the fascinating language of police radio talk to the invaluable assistance of a truly gifted dispatcher, to the nuances of crime scene investigation and interrogation, Deputy Sheriff Houseman provokes a paradox in the reader -- Houseman is just a regular guy like me, and at the same time he is a brilliant crime solver and commentator on the sublime value of life. Quite a lot from a small town (county) sheriff who has to put up with a hotshot, insubordinate rookie because there aren't enough officers to go around in this fast-paced story of blood-letting, sex, murder, cover-up, and vampires. At one point he is introduced to a fabulously wealthy, VERY IMPORTANT character, who opines that she at least expected the real sheriff, not just a deputy. In the end, it's the realy deputy Houseman who gets to the bottom of the plot and opens the way for the tortured young people to find some hope in the normal world. And by the way -- I can't stand fantasy/horror fiction and would never read a story about vampires if it weren't from one of my favorite authors. It was worth it. I hung on every word and finished the entire book in one sitting (well, lying), about 3 AM. Keep up the good work, Harstad, you should be a million times beter known than you are.
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