When New Mexico Undersheriff Bill Gastner learns his brother-in-law and his boss, the sheriff, were both killed in a plane crash, puzzling circumstances--including the fact that the sheriff didn't like to fly--lead him to probe the clues for a murderer and a motive.

Community ties and a wealth of experience lead New Mexico Undersherif Bill Gastner to search for a culprit trying to pin a series of crimes on elderly residents in Posadas County.

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...

New Mexico Sheriff Bill Gastner is days away from retirement when a teen drunk driver hits his patrol car and runs off into the night. When police eventually find him to arrest him, he becomes violent and dies when he flings himself into oncoming traffic. Bill finds the teen's fake ID and forms a troubling theory that leads to the deadliest case of Bill's career.

New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell is building his dream ; an astronomy-based theme park called NightZone. But the dream becomes a nightmare when two eco-terrorists chainsaw powerlines that feed the development. One of them is killed by a bucking power pole. From 20 miles away, retired Sheriff Bill Gastner spots the headlights as the other man flees the scene. Soon charges include murder when an unrelated traffic stop and a gunned-down policeman pull...

New Mexico middle-schooler Augie Hobble grapples with adolescence, paranormal mysteries, an overdue Creative Arts project, and heartbreaking loss while working his father's theme park, Fairy Tale Place.

From the moment Rachel's family takes in her orphaned cousin Julia, strange things start to happen. Rachel grows suspicious but soon finds herself alienated from her own life. Julia seems to have enchanted everyone to turn against her, leaving Rachel on her own to try and prove that Julia is a witch. One thing about Julia is certain-she is not who she says she is, and Rachel's family is in grave danger.

Posadas County's new undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Buzman is called out to the New Mexico desert to investigate a brutal murder--the victim's face so smashed in that identification is impossible. Needing help with a case that could extend beyond the US-Mexico border, Reyes-Guzman calls on retired Sheriff Bill Gastner, whose unerring sense of logic and his knowledge of horses will come in handy to try to identify the "Juan" Doe--then, another body turns...

The town of Posadas is preparing to host the first annual Posadas 100, a cycle-cross bicycle race, and if the injuries from the pre-race practice are any indication, the race promises to be an exciting one. But on the day of the race, a terrible tragedy occurs and Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman doesn't think it was an accident. She believes it has something to do with the bodies of three strangers discovered on a private airstrip in Posada County...