Bill Gastner, Undersheriff of Posadas County, knows ancient Anna Hocking didn't fall down her fruit cellar stairs by accident. He's also sure that elderly Reuben Fuentes knows nothing about the bodies scattered on his dusty, southern...
Gastner, Bill (Fictitious character)
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:A man’s body is found in the unforgiving New Mexico desert, his face so smashed that identification is impossible. It’s the beginning of a brutal murder spree that will take Posadas County’s new undersheriff, Estelle Reyes-Guzman, into...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:Former Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, now a New Mexico Livestock Inspector, is enjoying a day on Herb Torrance’s ranch, soaking in the sun as he counts a small herd of cattle and thinking about an upcoming lunch with an old friend...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary: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,...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary: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...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you’re New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build a dream. Waddell’s dream is NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park complete with giant radio telescope, a bank of smaller...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:Posadas County, New Mexico, has very few mean streets and no city-slick cop shop. But it has an earnest, elected Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff William C. Gastner. Pushing 60, widower Bill has no other life than in law enforcement—...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:A rattlesnake fang pegged in a teenager’s eye is just the beginning of a spring day for Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. The injured lad’s older brother goes missing, and is found dead in an arroyo, apparently killed by...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:A well-seasoned 69-years-old, 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 that leaves...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:Aging Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner has weathered his quadruple bypass and is taking a rare vacation up in New Mexico’s northern mountains. He’s escaping meddlesome medical providers who wish he’d reform, but he is staging a...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that ruins her face, Bill gets angry. Teamed...
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Author:Havill, Steven F.Summary:Parked on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, almost 70-year-old Bill Gastner doesn't foresee that a car full of drunk adolescents will run into his automobile. Nor that the driver will...
