Read Series: Bill Gastner Mystery
by Author Steven F. Havill
Heartshot (2007)
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...
Prolonged Exposure (2001)
Savvy storytelling infused with a spicy Southwestern setting."Not only does Havill offer a melancholy reinterpretation of that grand western myth of the slow-talking, fast-thinking lawman, he also writes crisp, marvelously detailed police procedurals in which a mix of technical know-how and infor...
Privileged to Kill (1997)
Finished 05/24/2014. Bill Gastner picks up a drifter whose bicycle tire has gone flat along the highway & treats him to a meal. When the man retires for the night near the school football field, there is a lot of activity & a young girl's body is left under the bleachers. The nomad is picked u...
Dead Weight (2002)
At 69, Sheriff Bill Gastner knows his Posadas, New Mexico, territory as well as he understands trusting his instincts. So when a man is crushed to death by a backhoe, Gastner feels there's more to this accident. Adding to his problems are charges of dirty politics--during an election year, no les...
Twice Buried (2000)
Bill Gastner, Undersheriff of Posadas County, knows ancient Anna Hocking didn't fall down her fruit cellar stairs by accident. He's also sure that elderly Reuben Fuentes knows nothing about the bodies scattered on his dusty, southern New Mexico ranch. No spring chicken himself, Bill summons his f...