Book description
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 informed common sense gets things
done."--Booklist Bill Gastner is going crazy recuperating from
heart surgery. Dreaming of green chili, he's rescued by a phone call
from back home. The Undersheriff arrives in Posadas County only to learn
that his own home has been burgled. Moreover, Gastner finds his cranky
ancient neighbor Florencio Apodaca has borrowed a bit of land to bury
his equally ancient wife--and the dead woman's stepson questions if she
died a natural death. Meanwhile a young boy out camping has vanished
from atop Cat Mesa. A stringent search convinces Bill, his treasured
deputy Estelle Reyes-Guzman, and Sheriff Martin Holman that the boy has
been spirited away. Poisoned Pen Press has republished the five earlier
novels in Steven Havill's carefully, cleverly detailed police procedural
series richly redolent of southern New Mexico. 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.
