Before She Dies: 4 (Posadas County Mysteries, 4)

"The Fourth Gastner case is easily the best, no small feat in a series as strong as this one. Gastner is compassionate, intelligent, bulldog tough, and emotional....An outstanding mystery." -- Booklist (*starred review*) "The Fourth Gastner case is easily the best, no small feat in a series as strong as this one. Gastner is compassionate, intelligent, bulldog tough, and emotional....An outstanding mystery." -- Booklist (*starred review*)

Praise for Before She Dies... "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 evidence, Bill implicates Tammy Woodruff, the thrill-seeking daughter of the local Republican County Chairman, in the brutal assault. Before he can interrogate her, though, Tammy hightails it. Soon she is found crushed to death after her truck goes off the road while she's loaded with booze-in fact, far too much alcohol, for anyone to have consumed.... Steven F. Havill lives with his wife of more than forty years, Kathleen, in New Mexico. He is the author of more than twenty novels, taught secondary schools for 25 years, and recently earned an AAS degree in gunsmithing. Before She Dies is the fourth novel in his Posadas County Mystery Series.