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Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
298 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico's crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers. Estelle's worries go from bad...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation--that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter's rifle blew out Larry Zipoli's brains--is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, and investigation reveals that the shooter walked directly toward the road...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The morning after his eighty-seventh birthday bash, former Posadas County sheriff Bill Gastner drives past a couple of vehicles stopped on the highway shoulder. It's not an unusual sight: a sheriff's patrol unit, emergency lights ablaze, pulled in behind a pickup truck. The female deputy hasn't radioed for backup. But there's something about the scene that makes him feel uneasy. The next day, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called to a rather...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
6) Twice buried
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Undersheriff Bill Gastner is certain that elderly Reuben Fuentes knows nothing about the bodies scattered on his New Mexico ranch. Gastner calls on his former deputy, Reuben's niece Estelle, to help clear her uncle of suspicion.
7) Dead weight
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
301 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park. Waddell's dream begins to sour when two eco-terrorists make an opening statement by chain-sawing power lines that feed the development. One of the terrorists is killed by a bucking power pole. When fleeing conspirator is stopped by a cop and guns the lawman down, retired Posadas Sheriff Gastner becomes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
294 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Undersheriff Bill Gastner of New Mexico investigates the death of his superior who was involved in a secret investigation on his own. He died in a plane crash and an autopsy shows the pilot was killed by gunfire from the ground.
10) Heartshot
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
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 Bill has no other life than in law enforcement--and doesn't want one, even if he's being nudged gently towards retirement. Then big time trouble strikes....
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico, Undersheriff Bill Gastner investigates the murder of a high school girl. Suspicion centers on a cyclist, until someone tries to run him down, whereupon Gastner realizes the murderer drives a car. By the author of Before She Dies.
12) Bag limit
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) Final payment
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
275 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
290 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the retirement of Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, Under-Sheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman finds herself dealing with a flu-ridden family and the investigation into two brutal murders, with the help of new sheriff Robert Torrez.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
298 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But then the coach, Clint Scott, is found gunned down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, he was killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy tagged several sites in town before he apparently began work on a section of wall outside the girls'...
17) Before she dies
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
250 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 22nd Posadas County Mystery, is a prequel to the prequel of the series, One Perfect Shot. It explores the younger Gastner, introduces Sheriff Eduardo Salcido, and traces the development of series stalwarts. When the first Posadas County mystery, Heartshot, published in 1991, Bill Gastner was the county Undersheriff. Over time Bill became Sheriff, then retired, and Robert Torrez took over the top spot. But what were Torrez's first days as a rookie...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Posadas County Sheriff's Department Dispatcher sticks a Post-It note on an incident report. What he meant to write was, "Not for news," hoping that the newspaper reporter who drops into the Sheriff's Office each morning would ignore the report. But what he unintentionally wrote was, "Note for news," and so the arrest of Quentin Torrez, nephew of Posadas Sheriff Robert Torrez, goes public. And Quentin, who has applied for a job with the NightZone...
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