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St. Kilda Consulting volume 01
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Hired by the eccentric aunt of New Mexico's multimillionaire governor Quintrell to research their family, genealogist Carolina May stumbles into a dark and dangerous secret about the Quintrell family that threatens her life.
2) The drifter
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Once, Frank Morgan had a wife and a future on the land-- until a rich man with a grudge drove him out of Colorado. Since then, Morgan's taken up the one skill that always came easy-- gun fighting-- and drifted to a mining town in the New Mexico Territory. But there is nothing easy about two vicious gangs descending on the town, threatening to wreck havoc.
4) Sunset Pass
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"Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he's become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rustlers and crooks. Now, he's returning to his hometown. But things have changed. The town and its people aren't what they used to be. He expects to find some of his enemies there to welcome him, but instead...
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"A soldier returns home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic Western. "He leaned propped against the rail of the great ship, in an obscure place aft, shadowed by the life-boats. It was the second night out of Cherbourg and the first time for him to be on deck. The ridged and waved Atlantic, but for its turbulence, looked like the desert undulating away to the uneven horizon. The roar of the wind in the rigging bore...
6) Twice buried
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Undersheriff Bill Gastner is certain that elderly Reuben Fuentes knows nothing about the bodies scattered on his New Mexico ranch. Gastner calls on his former deputy, Reuben's niece Estelle, to help clear her uncle of suspicion.
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It is the autumn of 1278. The harvest is in. The air is crisp. Dusty summer breathes a last sigh before the dark seasons arrive.
For Prioress Eleanor, dark times arrive early in Norfolk. Abbess Isabeau, the head of her order, has sent Father Etienne Davoir from its headquarters in France to inspect all aspects of Tyndal Priory from its morals to its roofs. Surely the Abbess would not have chosen her own brother for this rare and thorough investigation...
10) Before she dies
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When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that ruins her face, Bill gets angry. 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...
11) Bitter recoil
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Aging Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner has weathered his quadruple bypass and is taking a rare vacation up in the state's northern mountains. He's escaping meddlesome medical providers who wish he'd reform, but his heart is in staging a reunion with his former detective Estell Reyes who is working in San Estevan County. Arriving a day early at the the Steamboart Rock Campground, his camping plans are interrupted by sirens. Suddenly, Gastner,...
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A Posadas County Sheriff's Department Dispatcher sticks a Post-It note on an incident report. What he meant to write was, "Not for news," hoping that the newspaper reporter who drops into the Sheriff's Office each morning would ignore the report. But what he unintentionally wrote was, "Note for news," and so the arrest of Quentin Torrez, nephew of Posadas Sheriff Robert Torrez, goes public. And Quentin, who has applied for a job with the NightZone...
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Hubie Schuze, a dealer in traditional Native American pottery, resolves to find a way into the heavily guarded Trinity Site at the White Sands Missle Range to search for pottery of the Tompiro people, but when his associate is murdered and Tompiro pots start replicating like Russian nesting dolls, Hubie realizes he's caught up in the most complex and dangerous mystery he's ever faced.
14) One perfect shot
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"When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation--that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter's rifle blew out Larry Zipoli's brains--is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, and investigation reveals that the shooter walked directly toward the road...
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The historic Don Carlos Rancho stood at the gateway of the pass through which the Old Santa Fe Trail wound off to the Great Plains. Col. Ripple had married the glamorous Spanish daughter of the proprietor. As the years went by, their beautiful daughter, Holly Ripple, grew up, sheltered far away in a boarding school in the East. At her father's death, Holly was plunged onto the throne of this cattle empire, a bewildered girl who knew nothing about...
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Savvy storytelling infused with a spicy Southwestern setting. Not only does Havill offer a melancholy reinterpretation of that grand western myth of the slow-talking, fast-thinking lawman, he also writes crisp, marvelously detailed police procedurals in which a mix of technical know-how and informed common sense gets things done.--Booklist Bill Gastner is going crazy recuperating from heart surgery. Dreaming of green chili, he's rescued by a phone...
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Brothers O'Brien volume 5
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While dealing with vicious banditos who have targeted the family ranch, the O'Brien brothers must help their father, Colonel Shamus O'Brien, and the sheriff save the town of Recoil from a group of black-robed figures with skulls for faces that have a penchant for killing and destroying everything in sight.
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Megan Montoya, having moved to New Mexico with her daughter, Lizzie, to begin a career as a photgrapher, finds herself embroiled in a separatist plot when she opens her newspaper to find five emeralds inside, her paperboy goes missing, and Lizzie is kidnapped.
19) Heartshot
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Posadas County, New Mexico, hugging the San Cristobal mountains separating it from Mexico, has very few mean streets. No city-slick cop shop either, but an earnest, elected Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff, William C. Gastner. Pushing sixty, and the girth of his Sam Browne uniform belt, widower Bill has no other life than in law enforcement--and doesn't want one, even if he's being nudged gently towards retirement. Then big time trouble strikes....
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They were soulmates since college, but it's been two years since the divorce. Dana has moved on at the law firm, she's never looked better, and she hardly thinks about her ex-husband. But when Ethan and his yoga-strumpet are found dead in a New Mexico cave, Dana discovers she hasn't fully let go of Ethan or the past. Was it a murder-suicide? How could the man she once loved so deeply be a killer? Sifting through the clues of his life, Dana discovers...
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