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Books in Motion
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Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Second book in the Posadas County Mystery Series
"Havill delivers an evocative tale of hard lives on the edge of society. His portly detective is a genuine low-key pleasure."-Publishers Weekly
When Undersheriff Bill Gastner heads to New Mexico's mountains for some respite, the last thing he expects to find is a dead body. But he's a cop through-and-through, and he can't let a criminal walk…
Aging Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner has weathered...
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"If what you're hiding is motive, Gastner will ferret it out and do what needs to be done. An outstanding mystery." --Booklist starred review
Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersheriff Bill Gastner's deputies. He is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that ruins her face. Teamed with his intuitive, observant detective Estelle Reyes-Guzman and her usual sharp eye for physical...
3) Heartshot
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Dennis Palumbo's Head Wounds is a spectacular ride." -THOMAS PERRY, New York Times bestselling author
"This is a book that'll make you lock your doors and check your computer's security settings." -JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling author
Psychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime-those who've survived an armed robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault, but whose...
4) Twice Buried
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as her baggage.
If history is right, she was sentenced to die but "cheated the gallows" by acting insane. She spent nearly 40 years in Arizona's insane asylum-flummoxing officials by escaping six times.
If history is...
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A spicy quest tale in an India at once modern and ancient."-Publishers Weekly
At 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, processing loans for a mortgage company. Its warmest spot is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his lively wife Vidya. One night Sriram secretly confides he's planning a trip home to India to visit his mother and asks Jason to hold her gift, a gorgeous red silk sari. The very next evening Jason arrives...
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One beautiful Hawaiian morning Storm Kayama walks into her lucrative Honolulu law office to find her adopted uncle, Miles Hamasaki, at his desk, stiff and cold. Years before, Miles had fulfilled a promise to Storm's father to raise Storm with his own family. But now questions emerge about Hamasaki's death and her adopted family, and Storm's suspicions rise.
Heading to the Big Island for a weekend away from escalating pressures, Storm narrowly escapes...
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance writer Theda Krakow suspects an accident is to blame. But her shelter-owning rocker buddy Violet claims the contaminated kibble was poisoned.
When Theda starts looking at shelter politics, she finds a litter of suspects. The city shelter may be backing down from a healthy pet initiative, and a series of threatening letters suggests a darker motive. Old-fashioned jealousy may factor in as well....
8) Bag Limit
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Parked high on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, peacefully surveying what soon would no longer be his responsibility as a sheriff, almost-seventy Bill Gastner could think that the night would be without incident. He'd be wrong. He doesn't foresee that a car full of alcohol-inspired adolescents would run into his automobile. Nor that the driver would take off and disappear in the nearby woods. Far...
9) Dead Weight
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Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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 fact that leaves him feeling there's more to this "accident" than meets the eye. Adding to his problems, anonymous letters charging his best deputy, Tom Pasquale, with hustling Mexican nationals for cash are being dispatched around town....
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Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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 been a fight over a boy, but it is hard to believe that the also young Deena is responsible. Estelle has many other suspects to choose from, since the Acosta family holds the record for the number of domestic violence calls the police have received....
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Sublimely snappy prose...Maddy, full of life at 68, is a terrific narrator."-Kirkus Reviews
Maddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union on the stroke of nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, she admits. But not today. First she reads that her old college friend Gordon Sweet is dead. Then she learns he was murdered-at the abandoned landfill where...
12) Scavengers
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
It is the autumn of 1278. The harvest is in. The air is crisp. Dusty summer breathes a last sigh before the dark seasons arrive.
For Prioress Eleanor, dark times arrive early in Norfolk. Abbess Isabeau, the head of her order, has sent Father Etienne Davoir from its headquarters in France to inspect all aspects of Tyndal Priory from its morals to its roofs. Surely the Abbess would not have chosen her own brother for this rare and thorough investigation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Another mystery book from Kerry Greenwood, internationally bestselling author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries! Betrayal is a bitter pill to swallow...
Rising at four o'clock every morning isn't Corinna Chapman's favorite part of running her Australian bakery, Earthly Delights, and the glowing light of dawn feels even harsher when a man collapses in her shop. When the man, a military veteran, comes around and reveals that his beloved ex-service dog...
14) Final payment
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
15) Final Payment
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Who murdered the handsome young actor? And why?
In 1940, against the chilling backdrop of Hitler's rise and the specter of another war, Edna Ferber decides to follow an old dream: to act on the stage. Selecting The Royal Family, the comedy she wrote with George S. Kaufman, for her starring role, she travels to Maplewood, New Jersey. But her escape from the troubling daily headlines is short lived. Before opening night, a mysterious understudy is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the sheriff out on medical leave following a serious injury, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called upon to run the Posadas County department and finds herself investigating a strange accident that has injured another police officer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Pr
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, now a New Mexico Livestock Inspector, is enjoying a day on Herb Torrance's ranch--soaking in the sun as he counts a small herd of cattle and thinking about an upcoming lunch with an old friend back in town. But a light breeze stirs dust, a horse spooks, and Bil finds himself ferrying a broken cowpuncher in the back of his SUV, headed out to meet an ambulance. Moments later, Bill's day goes from bad to...
18) Bag limit
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Parked high on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, peacefully surveying what soon would no longer be his responsibility as a sheriff, almost-seventy Bill Gastner could think that the night would be without incident. He'd be wrong. He doesn't foresee that a car full of alcohol-inspired adolescents would run into his automobile. Nor that the driver would take off and disappear in the nearby woods. Far...
19) Scavengers
Author
Series
Posadas County volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010, ©2004
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
303 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the retirement of Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman finds herself dealing with a flu-ridden family and the investigation into two brutal murders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy goes missing and is found dead in an arroyo, apparently killed in an ATV accident. But the discovery he made moments before he was killed is puzzling... and takes deputies back to a five year old killing and has them looking for a murderer too close to home.
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