Posadas County Mystery Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.