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Dead Weight (Paperback)

de Steven F. Havill (Author)
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Sheriff Bill Gastner of Posadas County, New Mexico, is feeling every one of his nearly 70 years; first as undersheriff and now as sheriff, he has struggled against the county's long, slow slide into the horrors of the modern world. The slide continues here as one of Gastner's deputies is accused of harassing Mexicans, and the sheriff is confronted with a particularly grisly homicide that unlocks a Pandora's box full of illicit sex and dirty politics. What keeps Gastner moving forward, despite the melancholy hanging heavily from his shoulders, is the routine of police work; Havill is every bit as good at evoking procedural detail as he is at capturing small-town ambience. This series continues to provide a vivid picture of change in rural America: small-town values under siege from within and without as a big-hearted sheriff tries to keep the peace one day at a time. Quiet yet powerful human drama resting comfortably within the procedural formula. Bill Ott
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Location, location, location, Aoû 9 2001
Par John Fulton (Aurora, Colorado USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Ce commentaire est de: Dead Weight (Hardcover)
This is New Mexico @ its best. You can feel the heat, taste the dust. No wisps in the willows or baying of other-wordly night creatures. These are two-legged predators. Plain talk, plain people--you know them. You can see them. You can hear them. If you want rockets & bombs bursting in air, go somewhere else. Otherwise hunker down to Posadas County. Meet the folks, heroes & villains--all as likeable & as ornery as the next. Havill is better than a Chamber of Commerce travel pitch. I actually look forward to going to this gawd-forsaken place. The series (8 & counting) deserves someone to unearth this guy. Bill Gastner is an American Morse--crusty & 70-years tired. Havill writes a cozy procedural. He's good. Try him. I don't give 5 stars.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Good read, Sep 18 2000
Par Harriet Klausner - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Ce commentaire est de: Dead Weight (Hardcover)
Sheriff Bill Gastner has been part of Posedas County, New Mexico for his entire life and part of the sheriff's department since 1966. Now a septuagenarian, Bill nears retirement waiting for the upcoming election to select his replacement.

However, instead of gracefully fading into the background, Bill finds one of the most difficult cases of his illustrious career dumped on his lap. An internal investigation of a member of his staff, Deputy Tom Pasquale is accused of more than just destroying the rental property he leases. Apparently, the county commissioners have received a note from a concerned citizen claiming that Pasquale has hit on Mexican nationals for $100 every time he stops them.

Bill also has a potential homicide to deal to investigate. One of the battling Sissons, stars of the local family fight scene dubbed the "Jim and Grace" show, died in an apparent misfortune. Did Grace finally kill Jim or did a grotesque accident really occur?

The latest release in Steven F. Havill's great police procedural, DEAD WEIGHT, is another superb entry in the Sheriff Gastner collection. The two prime inquiries are fully developed because the charcaters seem more like flesh and blood than part of a novel, even for someone reading their first book in the series. The story line centers on the residents of the county and the surrounding landscape, although the police investigations are in full bloom. Anyone who wants a cerebral character-based plot, the Gastner novels, in which the first few are being reprinted, is must reading.

Harriet Klausner

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