Posadas County mysteries
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1) Heartshot
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Posadas County mysteries volume 1
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
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Books in Motion
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English
Description
Second book in the Posadas County Mystery Series
"Havill delivers an evocative tale of hard lives on the edge of society. His portly detective is a genuine low-key pleasure."-Publishers Weekly
When Undersheriff Bill Gastner heads to New Mexico's mountains for some respite, the last thing he expects to find is a dead body. But he's a cop through-and-through, and he can't let a criminal walk…
Aging Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner has weathered...
3) Twice buried
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Posadas County mysteries volume 3
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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Posadas County mysteries volume 4
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St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
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Privileged to kill , Posadas County mysteries volume 5
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When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance writer Theda Krakow suspects an accident is to blame. But her shelter-owning rocker buddy Violet claims the contaminated kibble was poisoned.
When Theda starts looking at shelter politics, she finds a litter of suspects. The city shelter may be backing down from a healthy pet initiative, and a series of threatening letters suggests a darker motive. Old-fashioned jealousy may factor in as well....
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"A spicy quest tale in an India at once modern and ancient."-Publishers Weekly
At 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, processing loans for a mortgage company. Its warmest spot is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his lively wife Vidya. One night Sriram secretly confides he's planning a trip home to India to visit his mother and asks Jason to hold her gift, a gorgeous red silk sari. The very next evening Jason arrives...
8)
Dead weight , Posadas County mysteries volume 8
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9) Bag Limit
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Parked high on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, peacefully surveying what soon would no longer be his responsibility as a sheriff, almost-seventy Bill Gastner could think that the night would be without incident. He'd be wrong. He doesn't foresee that a car full of alcohol-inspired adolescents would run into his automobile. Nor that the driver would take off and disappear in the nearby woods. Far...
10) Scavengers
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It is the autumn of 1278. The harvest is in. The air is crisp. Dusty summer breathes a last sigh before the dark seasons arrive.
For Prioress Eleanor, dark times arrive early in Norfolk. Abbess Isabeau, the head of her order, has sent Father Etienne Davoir from its headquarters in France to inspect all aspects of Tyndal Priory from its morals to its roofs. Surely the Abbess would not have chosen her own brother for this rare and thorough investigation...
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"Sublimely snappy prose...Maddy, full of life at 68, is a terrific narrator."-Kirkus Reviews
Maddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union on the stroke of nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, she admits. But not today. First she reads that her old college friend Gordon Sweet is dead. Then she learns he was murdered-at the abandoned landfill where...
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Posadas County mysteries volume 12
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Posadas County mysteries volume 13
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
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English
14) Final payment
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Posadas County mysteries volume 14
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Posadas County mysteries volume 15
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Red, green, or murder , Posadas County mysteries volume 16
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Posadas County mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A boy goes missing and is found dead in an arroyo, apparently killed in an ATV accident. But the discovery he made moments before he was killed is puzzling... and takes deputies back to a five year old killing and has them looking for a murderer too close to home.
18) One perfect shot
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Posadas County mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"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...
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Posadas County mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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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...