Bitter recoil [electronic resource] / Steven F. Havill.
"Aging Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner has weathered his quadruple bypass and is taking a rare vacation up in the state's northern mountains. He's escaping meddlesome medical providers who wish he'd reform, but his heart is in staging a reunion with his former detective Estelle Reyes who is working in San Estevan County. Arriving a day early at the Steamboat Rock Campground, his camping plans are interrupted by sirens. Suddenly, Gastner, Reyes, and her new husband, a doctor, reunite, not over dinner, but over the body of a pregnant young woman. As first the detectives assume she was a hit-and-run victim. Then the the medical exam reveals she was instead thrown from a moving vehicle after a rape attempt. Gastner's curiosity is piqued -- but he's on vacation. Then four more deaths follow and the still-to-be-reckoned-with lawman steps in to stop the rash of murders"--Publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781615950751 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1615950753 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2000.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Gastner, Bill (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Sheriffs > Fiction. New Mexico > Fiction. |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. Electronic books. |