Bitter recoil
By: Steven F. Havill
Series: Worldwide mystery; Worldwide mystery
Publisher: Worldwide
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780373269389
Subjects: Bill Gastner (Fictitious character); Fiction; Sheriffs; Shérifs; Romans, nouvelles
Description: 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 Estell Reyes who is working in San Estevan County. Arriving a day early at the the Steamboart 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 . At first the detectives assume she was a hit-and-run victim. Then 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-reckoned-with lawman steps in to stop the rash of murders.
Notes: "A Posadas County mystery."