If It Isn’t One Thing… A Posadas
County Mystery
by Steven F. Havill is the latest read in the excellent and long running series.
I have loved this series for decades now and a new read is always big time celebrated
in this house. This one is another mighty good book and strongly recommended.
In a more far less traveled part of
Posadas County, New Mexico, an 18-wheeler and a horse trailer have collided and
the crash is very bad. Trapped in the mangled wreckage is what remains of a
truck that was towing a horse trailer. In the crash, the horse was ejected and
has a severe gash down a rear leg. The horse is hurt, but alive. The same can
not be said for the driver of the truck who very clearly is dead. He was
crushed in the crash and it is going to take a long time and a lot of work.
The 18-wheeler was hauling a full load
of fire wood. That driver is clearly drunk as he wanders around the wreckage. A
scene made worse by the fac that the entire cargo of firewood is now dumped up
and down the highway.
Six miles north of the village of Posadas,
New Mexico, the only thing really out there is the local landfill which closed
hours ago. It is the middle of the night on a cold November night, so nobody
should really need to come through on that road. But, thanks to police scanners
and the local grapevine, folks are showing up in large numbers thereby making
things far more complicated than Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle
Reyes-Guzman expected.
So too is the backstory of what was
going on with the vehicles and their drivers in the days leading up to the
brutal and tragic collision. It wasn’t just the fact that one driver clearly
ran a stop sign. There were dominoes that fell in order leading up to the crash
which also soon caused a significant ripple effect beyond the fate of the two
drivers. As the soon to be retired Undersheriff discovers, death was a part of
things long before this grisly scene. The case will reach into the Dakotas, down
into Mexico, numerous places in-between, and tax her and her small department
in many ways.
This latest in the long running series
is another great read. As I have said, this series has been a favorite of mine
going back decades. As it was for my parents who were also major fans of it as
they eagerly read every installment long ago. At some point, I know it will
end, but I hold out hope that a series that has literally provided a
comfortable escape from the real world, will continue for more books. I need
them. We all need them.
Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3B6Mg20
My reading copy came by way of the publisher, Severn House, through NetGalley and with no expectation of a review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2025
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