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English
Poisoned Pen Press
01 October 2013
What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build a dream. Waddell's dream is NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park complete with giant radio telescope, a bank of smaller scopes linked to a theater, five-star dining in a restaurant with retracting dome ceiling, a hotel/resort, tram car access, and a narrow gauge steam locomotive to carry tourists to the mesa top.

But the dream becomes a nightmare when two eco-terrorists chain-saw down power lines that feed the development. One of them is killed by a bucking power pole; the other escapes by car. From 20 miles away, retired Posadas Sheriff William K. Gastner spots a pair of headlights as the dead man's companion speeds from the scene.

Soon charges include murder when the fleeing conspirator is stopped by a cop and guns the lawman down. Hours later Gastner stops to assist Sgt. Jackie Taber during an unrelated traffic stop, and 74-year-old Gastner becomes the focus of a second investigation by the District Attorney and Sheriff's Department.
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Imprint:   Poisoned Pen Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   318g
ISBN:   9781464200700
ISBN 10:   146420070X
Series:   Posadas County Mysteries
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Steven F. Havill lives with his wife of more than forty years, Kathleen, in Rat n, New Mexico. He is the author of more than twenty novels set in the American west, taught secondary schools for 25 years, and recently earned an AAS degree in gunsmithing.

Reviews for NightZone

Fans of Havill's fine multicultural procedural series set in Posadas County, N.Mex., will welcome the unusual 17th entry (after 2011's Double Prey), a prequel set in 1987... This solid installment is the perfect introduction for new readers. -- Publishers Weekly review of One Perfect Shot Action is the byword here. I couldn't read and turn the pages fast enough. The descriptions of the topography of this piece of New Mexico made me feel as though I drove over the back trails and walked on the uneven ground. The characters sure wouldn't fit in the East - nor would the gun racks in the back of their trucks - but their clothing and speech sound authentic. Double Prey is a good read that shouldn't be missed. -- Bookloons review of Double Prey The Posadas County Mystery series (Final Payment, 2007, etc.) notches its sixth with all its signature virtues intact: good writing, an unerring sense of place and a protagonist it's a pleasure to root for. -- Kirkus review of Fourth Time is Murder


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