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Steven F. Havill
Full Series List in Order
A Dr. Thomas Parks Novel
1 - Race for the Dying (Oct-2009)2 - Comes a Time for Burning (Feb-2011)
Posadas County
1 - Heartshot (Feb-1991)2 - Bitter Recoil (Jul-1992)
3 - Twice Buried (Apr-1994)
4 - Before She Dies (Mar-1996)
5 - Privileged to Kill (Feb-1997)
6 - Prolonged Exposure (Apr-1998)
7 - Out of Season (Oct-1999)
8 - Dead Weight (Oct-2000)
8 - Blood Sweep (Jan-2001)
9 - Bag Limit (Nov-2001)
10 - Scavengers (Sep-2002)
11 - Deadly Morsels: Red or Green? (Apr-2003)
12 - A Discount for Death (Nov-2003)
13 - Convenient Disposal (Sep-2004)
14 - Statute of Limitations (Mar-2006)
15 - Final Payment (Jun-2007)
16 - The Fourth Time Is Murder (Nov-2008)
17 - Red, Green, or Murder (Nov-2009)
18 - Double Prey (Jan-2011)
19 - One Perfect Shot (Jan-2012)
20 - Night Zone (Oct-2013)
21 - Come Dark (Apr-2016)
22 - Easy Errors (Nov-2017)
23 - Lies Come Easy (Nov-2018)
24 - Less Than a Moment (Mar-2020)
25 - No Accident (Mar-2022)
26 - Perfect Opportunity (Mar-2024)
27 - If It Isn't One Thing . . . (Mar-2025)
Book List in Order: 33 titles
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Bitter Recoil
- Jul-1992
- / Law Enforcement
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OBSESSION TAKES AIM… It's undersheriff Bill Gastner's most difficult assignment: going on a healthy, relaxing vacation. This hardheaded lawman isn't sure he can survive the hiking, the nonspicy, unfried food and the lack of crimes to solve. So ...
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Twice Buried
- Apr-1994
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THE SMOKING GUN? With seven days to go before he leaves for his godson's christening, Posadas County undersheriff Bill Gastner isn't looking for a new crime to solve. But the longtime lawman doesn't believe elderly Anna Hocking ended up on the dus...
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Before She Dies
- Mar-1996
- / Police Procedural
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"If what you're hiding is motive, Gastner will ferret it out and do what needs to be done. An outstanding mystery." --Booklist starred reviewPosadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersheriff Bill Gastn...
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Privileged to Kill
- Feb-1997
- / Police Procedural
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"Havill...quietly continues a project virtually unique in detective fiction: anchoring his tales of crime and punishment as closely as possible in the rhythms of small-town friends, routines, and calamities." --Kirkus ReviewsRolling stone Wesley Croc...
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Prolonged Exposure
- Apr-1998
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Out of Season
- Oct-1999
- / Police Procedural
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CLEAN SHOT Sheriff Martin Holman of the Posadas County Sheriff's Department didn't like flying. Much less at night, with bad weather. So why he took a plane ride over a nearby mesa under those dangerous conditions is a question as disturbing as wh...
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Dead Weight
- Oct-2000
- / Law Enforcement
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CRIME OF OPPORTUNITY A well-seasoned sixty-nine, Sheriff Bill Gastner knows his Posadas, New Mexico, territory as well as he understands the foibles of the human condition. So when a backhoe crushes a man to death, it's more instinct than fact tha...
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Blood Sweep
- Jan-2001
- / Police Procedural
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Next book in the Posadas County Mystery SeriesPosadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has a lot on her plate -- but when her family is threatened by a criminal underworld, she'll stop at nothing to protect her ownGifted fifteen-year-old Fran...
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Scavengers
- Sep-2002
- / Police Procedural
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While new sheriff Bobby Torrez is at a law enforcement conference, former deputy Estelle Reyes-Guzman is landed with the case of a body found in the desert - that of a man who had been badly beaten and then shot. Estelle and her deputies begin the fo...
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Deadly Morsels: Red or Green?
- Apr-2003
- / Law Enforcement
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When Bill Gastner, newly retired sheriff of Posadas County, New Mexico, finds his oldest friend dead of an apparent heart attack, he takes it with a grain of salt. George died after eating the famous Burrito Grande from the Don Juan de Oate restaura...
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A Discount for Death
- Nov-2003
- / Police Procedural
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Former Posadas County, New Mexico, sheriff Bill Gastner and his legacy of commonsense detecting come in handy just when new undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman can benefit most. One of the best tried and true Gastner-isms -- pick through the pieces of ...
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Convenient Disposal
- Sep-2004
- / Police Procedural
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Posadas County, New Mexico, undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called to the scene of a possible domestic violence. The victim is a teenage girl, beaten into a coma and stabbed in the ear with a hatpin. Earlier, the girl was involved in a rivalry o...
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Statute of Limitations
- Mar-2006
- / Police Procedural
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It's Christmas Eve in Posadas County, New Mexico, and the bad-luck snowball really gets moving downhill for Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. Former police chief Eduardo Martinez suffers a heart attack while chasing car thieves at a local motel; a d...
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Final Payment
- Jun-2007
- / Police Procedural
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The bodies of the three Hispanic victims don't point to the usual vigilante crime scene involving illegal border traffic in Posadas County, New Mexico. The expensively dressed couple and their grown son were shot execution-style at a remote airstrip....
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The Fourth Time Is Murder
- Nov-2008
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Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is always busy, but more so now than ever. The sheriff is still not completely recovered from his stay in the hospital, and she is recovering from a hospital stay herself. After a long day at work, Estelle is happy t...
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Race for the Dying
- Oct-2009
- / Historical Mystery
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The young Dr. Thomas Parks expects to practice trauma medicine with a distinguished doctor in Port McKinney, Washington. What he does not expect is to be nearly killed within an hour of arriving. The accident changes his life, and with long hours of ...
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Red, Green, or Murder
- Nov-2009
- / Police Procedural
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In Posadas County, New Mexico, retired undersheriff Bill Gastner understands two things: most criminals aren't as smart as they think they are, and human nature is fairly predictable. When a full cattle truck and trailer go missing along with the ran...
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Double Prey
- Jan-2011
- / Police Procedural
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A rattlesnake fang pegged in a teenager's eye is just the beginning of a spring day for Posadas Undersheriff Estelle Guzman. The injured lad's older brother goes missing, and is found dead in an arroyo, apparently killed by his cartwheeling ATV. But ...
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Comes a Time for Burning
- Feb-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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Busy putting in stitches and bandaging lumberjacks' injuries, young Dr. Thomas Parks has no idea that his worst enemy is lurking in the sleepy village of Port McKinney in the spring of 1892. When one of the working girls at the Clarissa Hotel is brou...
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One Perfect Shot
- Jan-2012
- / Law Enforcement
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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...
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Night Zone
- Oct-2013
- / Police Procedural
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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 a dream. A flat-topped mesa and a third of a billion dollars equals NIGHTZONE, an astronomy-based theme park, complete with giant radio...
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Easy Errors
- Nov-2017
- / Police Procedural
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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 office...
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Lies Come Easy
- Nov-2018
- / Mystery
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One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it's horrifying - a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unro...
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Less Than a Moment
- Mar-2020
- / Law Enforcement
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A New Mexico border town reckons with a shocking shooting and a dead developer in the “consistently excellent” police procedural series (Booklist). When a developer shows up in Posadas County, the locals get nervous. The small town along t...
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No Accident
- Mar-2022
- / Police Procedural
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Good cops have no use for coincidenceWhen a driver slams his pickup truck -- twice -- into a tandem bike being ridden by Carlos Guzman and his fiancée, Tasha, in Briones, California, it's more than a simple hit-and-run; the driver clearly intended t...
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Perfect Opportunity
- Mar-2024
- / Police Procedural
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Octogenarian former sheriff Bill Gastner and Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigate a puzzling double murder in this twisty, page-turning instalment in the critically acclaimed Posadas County mystery series"If you haven't yet discovered these ...
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If It Isn't One Thing . . .
- Mar-2025
- / Police Procedural
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A fatal road crash " a domestic incident turned deadly " if it isn’t one thing, it’s another for Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman in this intricately plotted, warm-hearted Posadas County mystery, set in small-town New Mexico“If you haven't...
