""Havill is the author of 25 titles, including four westerns, 19 Posadas County Mysteries, and the sequel to """"Race for the Dying,"""" """"Comes a Time for Burning.""""The latest in his Posadas Series, """"One Perfect Shot"""" is to be followed in October, 2013 by """"NightZone.""
The second Parks historical medical thriller (see Race for the Dying) is a great tale that focuses on the state of medicine in rural Puget Sound in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The cast makes the tale as the doctors struggle to contain an epidemic that threatens the village and nearby towns, but the impact on everyone is deeply felt by the audience. Steven F. Havill's series is a strong saga worth reading. --Harriet Klausner of Comes a Time for Burning Havill, author of the Bill Gastner and Posadas County mystery series, shows his skills in characterization and plotting here, as he personalizes nineteenth-century medical mail fraud to create a compelling historical novel. -- Booklist of Race for the Dying Havill sets up a number of colorful dramatic situations that ought to please readers who take their westerns neat. -- Publishers Weekly of Race for the Dying