Steven F Havill Books in Order

Two swindlers arrive in a town desperate for a doctor and bluff their way into the job. When disease breaks out, their con becomes a fight for survival, and running away may be even more dangerous than staying.

Frontier doctor Robert Patterson is trying to hold a Colorado town together during an anthrax epidemic. At the same time, he has to hunt an unseen killer, making every patient and every rumor feel dangerous.

After making money elsewhere, Frank Buckley comes back to quiet Coffee Creek expecting a fresh start. Instead, one deadly mistake follows him home, and the town's calm surface begins to crack.

In one of Havill's early westerns, a doctor in the Northwest timber country is drawn into frontier violence and hard choices. The novel mixes medicine, danger, and the rough daily pressures of life far from safety.

When a car crash kills five local teens, Undersheriff Bill Gastner uncovers drugs, grief, and a chain of violence that reaches deep into Posadas County. The case pushes the aging lawman, and his heart, to the limit.

On a mountain vacation meant to keep him resting, Bill Gastner stumbles into the death of a pregnant young woman. When more murders follow, he joins Estelle Reyes to hunt a killer in rural northern New Mexico.

A suspicious death at the bottom of a cellar stairway opens into a tangle of burglaries, arson, poisonings, and old family secrets. Bill Gastner calls back Estelle Reyes-Guzman to help clear her great-uncle before the county spins further out of control.

After a deputy is shot during a confrontation with a troubled young man, Bill Gastner thinks the worst is over. Then a woman tied to the case dies in a wreck that looks far from accidental, and the questions only grow.

A stranded bicyclist is quickly blamed when a teenage girl is found dead under the high school bleachers. Bill Gastner is not convinced, and as more violence follows, he digs into the town's prejudices and buried motives.

Back home after heart surgery, Bill Gastner finds his house burglarized, a neighbor's burial suspicious, and a small boy missing from a campground. What begins as scattered troubles turns into one of Posadas County's most personal investigations.

Just as Bill Gastner faces retirements and transfers in his tiny department, the sheriff dies in a plane crash that makes no sense. Evidence from the wreck points to murder, and the case could reshape the whole Posadas County force.

Sheriff Bill Gastner is dealing with an anonymous accusation against one of his deputies when a mechanic's death stops looking like an accident. The deeper he digs, the more petty grudges and dangerous lies begin to overlap.

In his final days as sheriff, Bill Gastner expects a quiet exit. Instead, a drunk teen's fatal arrest and the murder of the boy's father pull him into a fast, messy case built around fake IDs, bad choices, and small-town secrets.

In her first major case after Bill Gastner's retirement, Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigates an unidentified body left in the desert. More deaths follow, and the trail leads across the border into a harsh landscape where answers are hard won.

New undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman barely has room to breathe when an insurance broker vanishes on the eve of fraud charges. Then a wild police chase ends in a young mother's death, and a supposed suicide raises even harder questions.

When a tough middle-school girl is savagely attacked and the county manager disappears, Estelle Reyes-Guzman has to work two dangerous tracks at once. Teenage rivalries, politics, and private secrets push the case toward a violent finish.

Christmas in Posadas turns chaotic when a veteran officer collapses, the sheriff is hospitalized, a deputy's fiancee is murdered, and Bill Gastner is brutally attacked. Estelle has almost no time, and even fewer people, to stop the violence.

As Posadas prepares for a punishing hundred-mile bicycle race, Estelle Reyes-Guzman is drawn to a remote airstrip and three execution-style bodies. A mysteriously borrowed airplane points the investigation south, and the stakes keep rising.

Still stretched thin at home and at work, Estelle Reyes-Guzman answers a nighttime call about a truck off the road. The dead driver's injuries do not fit a simple crash, and a single footprint turns a lonely scene into a murder case.

Fresh out of medical school in 1890, Dr. Thomas Parks heads to the Puget Sound timber country and is nearly injured before he can even begin. As he recovers, he uncovers a medical fraud just as disease threatens the whole town.

Former sheriff Bill Gastner expects an ordinary day, then an old friend dies at home after a takeout lunch and another local emergency pulls everyone sideways. Estelle Reyes-Guzman soon suspects there is murder hiding inside what looked like natural death.

In 1892 Port McKinney, Dr. Thomas Parks is overwhelmed when cholera sweeps into the rough timber town. While fighting to save lives, he also has to learn where the contagion came from, and whether someone close to his clinic helped unleash it.

The discovery of a jaguar skull should have been a local curiosity. Instead, a teenager ends up dead with a mysterious gun, and Estelle Reyes-Guzman must connect the killing to an older case before grief and rumor do more damage.

A county road worker is killed by an impossibly precise shot, and Undersheriff Bill Gastner has a baffling case on his hands. Just as important, the investigation marks the beginning of young deputy Estelle Reyes's long partnership with him.

Millionaire rancher Miles Waddell turns a mesa into NightZone, a lavish astronomy destination that could transform Posadas County. But sabotage, resentment, and eco-terrorism quickly turn the dream project into a criminal investigation.

Estelle Reyes-Guzman's worries spike when her pianist son is in Mazatlán and an unknown uncle shows up with trouble behind him. Family history, kidnappers, and fresh violence collide as the danger reaches both Bobby Torrez and NightZone.

A young mother vanishes after locking her baby and dog in a sweltering car, and Posadas County is suddenly juggling crises on every side. Estelle's department traces the threads through stolen identities, local feuds, and another shocking death.

Set in 1986, this prequel follows Bill Gastner and rookie Robert Torrez after a brutal highway crash leaves local teenagers dead. What looks straightforward soon widens into a case that tests a new deputy from his first day on the job.

A deputy finds a toddler abandoned on a snowy road, and that is only the start of a grim holiday week. Estelle juggles a suspicious death, a missing range worker, and a murder in tiny Regál while her family tries to gather for Christmas.

A proposed development next to NightZone rattles Posadas County long before bullets hit the local newspaper office. Estelle Reyes-Guzman must sort out land deals, public fear, and a death that refuses to look accidental.

When Estelle Reyes-Guzman's son and his fiancee are deliberately run down in California, she rushes west and cannot leave the case alone. A second killing near the bike shop makes it clear the crash was no accident.

The day after Bill Gastner's eighty-seventh birthday, a roadside stop nags at him for reasons he cannot name. Soon the same truck turns up with a body inside and another in the ditch, pulling Bill and Estelle into a double murder and sabotage plot.

A crash between a horse trailer and a loaded semi looks routine until the dead driver turns out to be the wrong man and a valuable stallion is at the center of it. Then a domestic call leaves another body and an injured officer, sending Estelle in two directions at once.

While heading to back up a call at NightZone, Estelle Reyes-Guzman slams into an elk and barely survives. As she weighs retirement, a raffle Corvette vanishes, resurfaces in a lake, and reveals a death that throws the whole county off balance.