Book description
The rugged Cat Mesa country north of the village of Posadas is hosting
the first annual Posadas 100, a cycle-cross bicycle race that promises
to attract more than 140 competitors. Despite enough injuries during the
pre-race practice to promise a spectacular and dangerous race,
Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has even more pressing concerns on her
mind. Someone has been using Jerry Turner's big Cessna 206 and then
returning it to its hangar at the Posadas airport. Did the airplane end
up in Mexico? Estelle has worries at home as well. Facing his first
public piano recital, her prodigiously talented seven-year-old son is
stubbornly refusing to tell anyone what he plans to play, and it's
making everyone, including his music teacher, very nervous. The day of
the big race brings a tragedy that doesn't look like an accident, and as
the investigation continues, puzzling connections surface deep in
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.
