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    Blood Sweep

    By Steven Havill

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    Next book in the Posadas County Mystery Series

    Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has a lot on her plate—but when her family is threatened by a criminal underworld, she'll stop at nothing to protect her own

    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 surfaces in the small town to mend family ties and leaves a trail of corpses in his wake. Meanwhile, escalating events put Sheriff Bobby Torrez in jeopardy—and with a criminal willing to openly attack local law enforcement, the citizens of Posadas County are in incredible danger.

    And just when his sage advice might be most useful, former county sheriff and family friend Bill Gastner is injured and out of commission. As the situation on both sides of the border heats up, the inevitable outcome grows more and more deadly.

    In Blood Sweep, the next title in Steven F. Havill's Posadas County Mysteries, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman's past will come back to haunt her. Can she keep Posadas County safe from it?

    This acclaimed series is:

    • Perfect for fans of C.J. Box and Michael McGarrity
    • For readers who enjoy police procedurals and Southwest desert mysteries
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781464203909
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    Blood Sweep
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    Steven Havill

    Steven F. Havill lives with his wife of fifty-three years, Kathleen, in New Mexico. He is the author of thirty-two novels, taught secondary schools for 25 years, and recently earned an AAS degree in gunsmithing.

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    • 3/5
      I'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.
    • 4/5
      A 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.