Out of Season

Bill Gastner, Undersheriff of Posadas County, New Mexico, is about to lose his valuable deputy when she goes to Minnesota with her doctor husband. Then his life becomes even more complicated when his boss, the sheriff, dies in a private plane crash piloted by his brother-in-law. Questions about why the men were flying (the sheriff hated to fly), especially in bad weather are overshadowed when the coroner finds that the pilot was killed by gun shots originating from the ground.... Praise for Out of Season "Full of bright local color and suffused with a compassionate understanding of human motivation, this intelligent, understated mystery deserves a wide and appreciative readership." -Publishers Weekly "Havill...writes crisp, marvelously detailed police procedurals in which a mix of technical know-how and informed common sense gets things done. A consistently strong, underappreciated series." -Booklist Steven F. Havill lives with his wife of 40 years, Kathleen, in Ratón, New Mexico. The author of 21 novels set in the American West, he taught secondary schools for 25 years and recently earned an AAS degree in gunsmithing. Out of Season is the seventh title in his Posadas County Mystery Series.