num_pages: 272
description: "Havill...quietly continues a project virtually unique in detective anchoring his tales of crime and punishment as closely as possible in the rhythms of small-town friends, routines, and calamities." -- Kirkus Reviews Rolling stone Wesley Crocker seems a harmless enough free spirit when Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner offers him a lift on the road and spots him a free dinner. Crocker beds down for the night with his gear on the high-school athletic field. By morning, 13-year-old Maria Ibarra is found under the high-school football bleachers a few feet away and Crocker goes straight to jail. His account of how he passed the night is full of enough holes to keep him locked down, but meanwhile a background check on Maria raises troubling questions about her life....
language: English
title: Privileged to Kill
titlecomplete: Privileged to Kill (Posadas County Mysteries, 5)
genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Westerns, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 1420
series: Bill Gastner Mystery
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press