Steven F. Havill, Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59058-827-7; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-59058-829-1
Set in Port McKinney, Wash., in 1892, Havill's second Thomas Parks mystery (after 2009's Race for the Dying) focuses on the physician's efforts to stop a killer disease. When 23-year-old Lucy Levine from the local hotel of ill repute suddenly takes...
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Steven F. Havill. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0070-0
As Havill’s stellar 19th Posadas County mystery (after 2012’s One Perfect Shot) shows, retired sheriff Bill Gastner can’t resist getting involved in law enforcement business. One quiet night, while Gastner, an insomniac, is stargazing on a mesa, he...
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Steven F. Havill. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-59058-956-4
Fans of Havill’s fine multicultural procedural series set in Posadas County, N.Mex., will welcome the unusual 17th entry (after 2011’s Double Prey), a prequel set in 1987. Undersheriff Bill Gastner, the series lead introduced in 1991’s Heartshot,...
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Steven F. Havill, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-15196-6
Bill Gastner can't sleep, eats way too much Mexican food and seems headed for a stroke. But in his fifth adventure (after Before She Dies), the aging undersheriff of Posadas County, N.M., labors 'round the clock to solve the mysterious death of a 15-
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Steven F. Havill, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-312-10566-2
Responding late to a phone call to the Posados County's sheriff's office, laconic New Mexico Undersheriff Bill Gastner (last seen in Bitter Recoil ) finds Anna Hocking, an elderly retired teacher, dead at the bottom of her basement stairs. Gastner,...
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Steven F. Havill, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-312-07656-6
An unusual setting, rural New Mexico, and a decidedly non-New Age sleuth give this second mystery from the author of Heartshot a few fresh angles. After bypass surgery, 62-year-old Undersheriff Bill Gastner should be taking it easy, laying off the...
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Steven F. Havill, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-312-05442-7
Septuagenarian undersheriff Bill Gastner of Posadas County, N.M., is the skeptical, endearing narrator of this mystery debut by a writer of Westerns ( Timberblood ). Conscious of advancing age and his bulging waistline, Gastner distrusts both...
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Steven F. Havill, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-25203-8
Western trends, Chinese traditions and millennial cults clash in this lively and topical Beijing police procedural, the fourth in West's series featuring Det. Wang Anzhuang and his wife, Rosina. Wang has more than enough to do enforcing the Party's...
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Steven F. Havill, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-24414-9
The seventh southwestern mystery featuring undersheriff Bill Gastner (after Prolonged Exposure) again demonstrates Havill's talent for combining amiable characters with believable suspense. The author's realistic ranchers, loners and small-town...
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Steven F. Havill, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-25183-3
Low-key and laconic to the point of being almost comatose, this latest mystery featuring immensely likable New Mexico Sheriff Bill Gastner (after 2000's Dead Weight) coasts admirably on its folksy charm for most of the rambling narrative....
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Steven F. Havill, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $25.99 (322p) ISBN 978-0-312-38071-7
Veteran mystery writer Havill (the Posadas County and Sheriff Bill Gastner series) delivers a feel-good yarn set in rough-and-tumble 1891 Port McKinney, Wash. Young doctor Thomas Parks travels from Connecticut to work with Dr. John Haines, an old...
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Steven F. Havill, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-59058-665-5
Havill's Posadas County, N.Mex., mysteries feature a strong ensemble cast that for nine volumes was headed by under-sheriff Bill Gastner, then by his successor, Estelle Reyes-Guzman, for the next six. The fine 16th entry, a chronological...
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Steven F. Havill, Author St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-33630-1
A rich sense of character and place invigorates Havill’s sixth Posadas County, N.Mex., police procedural (after 2007’s Final Payment
). Anomalies that surface in the investigation of a fatal traffic accident concern under-sheriff Estelle
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Steven F. Havill, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-35415-2
In Havill's satisfying fifth Posadas County puzzler (after 2006's Statute of Limitations
), undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman and her colleagues discover three Hispanics shot to death, execution-style, at a remote New Mexico airstrip....
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Steven F. Havill, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $23.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-32404-9
Homophobia, politics and perilous teenage rivalries make for an absorbing smalltown procedural, Havill's 12th novel in his Posadas County series. When Carmen Acosta, a middle-school tough girl, is severely beaten and stabbed in the ear with a...
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Steven F. Havill, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-30785-1
After nine mysteries featuring undersheriff Bill Gastner, Havill finally let the aging lawmaker retire and pass the torch to Estelle Reyes-Guzman in 2002's Scavengers
. The new undersheriff proves to be as engaging and as effective as her...
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Steven F. Havill, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-28833-4
In his 10th entertaining outing (after last year's Bag Limit), Havill's laconic hero, Bill Gastner, after retiring as sheriff of Posadas County (N.Mex.), has become the state livestock inspector, while the mother of his godchildren, Estelle...
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Steven F. Havill, Author, Steven F. Gavukk, Author Thomas Dunne Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-18158-1
Fine storytelling married to a spicy Southwestern setting marks the latest Bill Gastner mystery (following Privileged to Kill, 1997). Gastner, undersheriff in New Mexico's Posadas County, is recuperating from heart surgery at his daughter's Michigan
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