In this Posadas County mystery featuring Estelle Reyes-Guzman as the undersheriff, former sheriff Bill Gastner is peering out of the wings to which he dispatched himself upon retirement. For Estelle, coping with her new job and [...] Read More →

Parked on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, almost-seventy Bill Gastner doesn’t foresee that a car full of drunk adolescents will run into his automobile. Nor [...] Read More →

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 [...] Read More →

“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 [...] Read More →

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 [...] Read More →

Sheriff Estelle is called to teenager Carmen Acosta’s home. When she arrives, Carmen’s father, Freddie, is in police custody and an unconscious Carmen is on the way to the hospital “beat to a pulp.” There has [...] Read More →

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 [...] Read More →

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 [...] Read More →

The rugged Cat Mesa country north of the village of Posadas is hosting the first annual Posadas 100, a cycle-cross bicycle race that promises to attract more than 140 competitors. Despite enough injuries during the pre-race [...] Read More →

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 sixty, widower Bill has no other life than [...] Read More →

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 [...] Read More →

Elderly Undersheriff Bill Gastner, in Posadas County, New Mexico, is about to lose his valuable deputy when she goes to Minnesota with her doctor husband. But his life becomes far more complicated than the loss of [...] Read More →

Bill Gastner can’t sleep, eats way too much Mexican food and seems headed for a stroke. But in his fifth adventure, the aging undersheriff of Posadas County, N.M., labors ’round the clock to solve the mysterious [...] Read More →

Gastner, undersheriff in New Mexico’s Posadas County, is recuperating from heart surgery at his daughter’s Michigan home, but he can’t wait to get back home to the land of green-chili burritos and real sunshine. When his [...] Read More →

Former Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, now a New Mexico Livestock Inspector, is enjoying a day on Herb Torrances. But Bill soon finds himself ferrying a broken cowpuncher in the back of his SUV, headed out [...] Read More →

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 soon take Posadas County’s new undersheriff, Estelle [...] Read More →

It’s Christmas in Posadas County. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes- Guzman is settling down to a quiet evening with her family, until her doctor husband gets a call from the retired chief-of-police: he’s at a nearby motel, having [...] Read More →

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is always busy, but now more so 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 [...] Read More →

An 86-year-old woman is found dead at the bottom of her basement stairs. Ancient recluse Reuben Fuentes starts carrying a gun after his three dogs are poisoned. A young delinquent is found dead on Fuentes’ property, [...] Read More →