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Blood Sweep: Posadas County Mystery, Book 8
Written by Steven F. Havill
Narrated by Beth Richmond
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico’s crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers. Estelle’s worries go from bad to worse when her uncle?a man she didn't know existed?surfaces in an attempt to mend family ties and leaves a trail of corpses in his wake. Estelle’s attempts to glean family history?the story of her childhood in Tres Santos over the border?from her adopted mother, a woman now in her nineties, go nowhere. Meanwhile, escalating events put Sheriff Bobby Torrez in jeopardy, as they do newly wealthy rancher Miles Waddell and his pet project, the multi-million dollar theme park, NightZone, set high on a county mesa. Just when his sage advice might be most useful, former sheriff and family friend Bill Gastner takes a dive?in the shadows of his own garage. Now his far-flung family is added to the mix of people and events astir in the boot heel of New Mexico.
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Reviews for Blood Sweep
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/55 Thoughts:
1. Estelle's past and future entwine in this latest installment.
2. Love that the politics of running for sheriff isn't the storyline.
3. Love Naranjo and glad he made an appearance in this book.
4. Love this series for continuing story arcs including the continuing building on the night park.
5. Hope Gastner is back up and making a green enchilada run in the next book! - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A cut above for this very good series. Estelle discovers more of her rescue as an infant from a previously unknown uncle. Enough bodies produced to fill a weekend night in Chicago. Keeping former Sherif Bill Gastner alive and well continues to be a problem adding to her angst about her prodigy son who is threatened while on tour in Mexico.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm finally going to say it aloud: I do not enjoy the books from Estelle's point of view all that much. And this one was particularly bad, given that instead of focusing on solving crimes, for the most of the book she was thrust into the role of nurturer, devoting her energies to worrying about her mother, about her son, about Padrino, about the man who might be her uncle. That is not what I'm looking for when I read a police procedural, nor do I actually like Estelle's personality or how she handles things sometimes. I did enjoy finally spending more time from Bobby's perspective, though even that was only a glimpse. In the scenes with Bobby, we alternated between getting a bit from inside his head and just having a narrator comment on how he looked or how he reacted, without getting into Bobby's thoughts. I wonder if Bobby is a bit of a black box even to his creator. The mystery itself was kind of a mess, and the motivations to me seemed rather cloudy and vague. Someone might have sent two of the victims to cause trouble in Posadas County, and someone in Mexico may have wanted them stopped. Meh. This was not one of the good ones.