Statute of Limitations
Steven F. Havill
Dunne, Apr 2006, $23.95
ISBN: 0312336306

On Christmas Eve in Posadas, New Mexico, Chief of Police Eduardo Martinez suffers a heart attack while confronting car thieves in a motel parking lot; the stories from the two witnesses seem off kilter. The next morning Sheriff Robert Torrez, still in recovery from on the job injuries, suffers from what appears to be a pulmonary embolism. That afternoon the fianc of one of his deputies is murdered. Finally that evening, someone viciously assaults former sheriff Bill Gastner who is brutally attacked.

Under-sheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is left in charge to learn who brutally attacked her mentor Gastner, killed the fianc , and to capture the car thieves. At the same time she feels overwhelmed, and her spouse feels the same way as a doctor at the hospital with an abundance of law enforcement officials filling the beds, albeit Robert's is in Albuquerque.

In her latest police procedural, Estelle feels overwhelmed with the recent medical track record of law enforcement, as she and her shrinking staff struggle with a difficult caseload, including murder, car jacking, and keeping score of how everyone is doing. She also has some issues at home, but that quickly takes a back seat to police matters. STATUE OF LIMITATIONS is a fabulous police thriller, that fans of the series will immensely enjoy, and newcomers will seek Steven F. Havill's r sum .