Book description
Elderly Undersheriff Bill Gastner, in Posadas County, New Mexico, is
about to lose his valuable deputy when she goes to Minnesota with her
doctor husband. But his life becomes far more complicated than the loss
of Estelle when his boss, the sheriff, dies in a private plane crash
piloted by his brother-in-law. Questions about why the men were flying
(the sheriff hated to fly) in bad weather are overshadowed when the
coroner finds that the pilot was killed by gun shots from the ground
through the bottom of the plane, and the sheriff could not pilot it down
safely. Steven F. Havill lives with his wife of more than forty years,
Kathleen, in Ratón, New Mexico. He is the author of more than twenty
novels set in the American west, taught secondary schools for 25 years,
and recently earned an AAS degree in gunsmithing.
