Blood Sweep [Hardcover]

Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexicos crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers.

Estelles worries go from bad to worse when her unclea man she didn't know existedsurfaces in an attempt to mend family ties and leaves a trail of corpses in his wake. Estelles attempts to glean family historythe story of her childhood in Tres Santos over the borderfrom her adopted mother, a woman now in her nineties, go nowhere. Meanwhile, escalating events put Sheriff Bobby Torrez in jeopardy, as they do newly wealthy rancher Miles Waddell and his pet project, the multi-million dollar theme park, NightZone, set high on a county mesa.

Just when his sage advice might be most useful, former sheriff and family friend Bill Gastner takes a divein the shadows of his own garage. Now his far-flung family is added to the mix of people and events astir in the boot heel of New Mexico.

Posadas County Sheriff Bobby Torrez is antelope hunting when a shot blows apart his telescopic sight.Was someone trying to kill him or just delivering a message? Meanwhile, Undersheriff Estelle eyes Guzmans son, a 15-year-old pianist, is in Mazatalan, Mexico, for a concert. Crime is escalating in theonce-picturesque city, so Estelle nears panic when her 90-year-old mother receives an anonymous call asking for $8,000. The tension escalates again when a body is found in a car, the circumstances suggesting that the victim knew his killer. Theres also some preliminary evidence the dead man may have been the shooter who took out Torrez lens. Are any of the incidents related? Havill, in his twentieth Posadas County mystery, will keep readers guessing. Hell allÛ