Steven Havill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parked high on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, peacefully surveying what soon would no longer be his responsibility as a sheriff, almost-seventy Bill Gastner could think that the night would be without incident. He'd be wrong. He doesn't foresee that a car full of alcohol-inspired adolescents would run into his automobile. Nor that the driver would take off and disappear in the nearby woods. Far
...Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The morning after his eighty-seventh birthday bash, former Posadas County sheriff Bill Gastner drives past a couple of vehicles stopped on the highway shoulder. It's not an unusual sight: a sheriff's patrol unit, emergency lights ablaze, pulled in behind a pickup truck. The female deputy hasn't radioed for backup. But there's something about the scene that makes him feel uneasy. The next day, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called to a rather...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation—that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter's rifle blew out Larry Zipoli's brains—is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, an investigation reveals that the shooter walked directly toward the
...Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation--that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter's rifle blew out Larry Zipoli's brains--is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, and investigation reveals that the shooter walked directly toward the road...
5) Dead weight
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; cm.
Language
English
7) Heartshot
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Posadas County, New Mexico, hugging the San Cristobal mountains separating it from Mexico, has very few mean streets. No city-slick cop shop either, but an earnest, elected Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff, William C. Gastner. Pushing sixty, and the girth of his Sam Browne uniform belt, widower Bill has no other life than in law enforcement--and doesn't want one, even if he's being nudged gently towards retirement. Then big time trouble strikes....
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
301 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park. Waddell's dream begins to sour when two eco-terrorists make an opening statement by chain-sawing power lines that feed the development. One of the terrorists is killed by a bucking power pole. When fleeing conspirator is stopped by a cop and guns the lawman down, retired Posadas Sheriff Gastner becomes...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico, Undersheriff Bill Gastner investigates the murder of a high school girl. Suspicion centers on a cyclist, until someone tries to run him down, whereupon Gastner realizes the murderer drives a car. By the author of Before She Dies.
10) Bag limit
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
12) Final payment
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
275 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
298 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico's crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers. Estelle's worries go from bad...
14) Twice buried
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Undersheriff Bill Gastner is certain that elderly Reuben Fuentes knows nothing about the bodies scattered on his New Mexico ranch. Gastner calls on his former deputy, Reuben's niece Estelle, to help clear her uncle of suspicion.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
290 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the retirement of Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, Under-Sheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman finds herself dealing with a flu-ridden family and the investigation into two brutal murders, with the help of new sheriff Robert Torrez.
18) Out of season
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
294 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Undersheriff Bill Gastner of New Mexico investigates the death of his superior who was involved in a secret investigation on his own. He died in a plane crash and an autopsy shows the pilot was killed by gunfire from the ground.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
20) Lies come easy
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it's horrifying - a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unrolls while Christmas approaches after dad Darrell Fisher's arrest: a request arrives from the US Forest Service to locate a missing range tech and his unit last reported headed for nearby Stinkin' Springs,...
