The Fourth Time Is Murder

Three and a half stars. My husband bought this home and I picked it up and thought it looked interesting so ended up reading it first. I have not read any of this author’s other books and so was new to Posadas County in New Mexico and Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. For me one of the strengths o......more

I like the Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman character. Enough Spanish to enhance her character, but not so much the reader has to dig out a translator app to keep up with the story. She uses her network and her brains to solve problems, not super strength or unnatural intuition. The plot touches on......more

Not the best in this reliably entertaining series, but still worth the time spent with these familiar and well developed characters.......more

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigates two seeming accidents. In one, a driver has gone off the road and tumbled down the rocks. In the other, an undocumented worker has been killed in a wood-cutting accident. Estelle discovers that both have some sort of link to the tiny village of Regal, w......more

This installment unfolds slowly and, I suspect realistically, as Estelle and her department put together the seemingly inconsequential pieces that solve a case. There is a scene in this one in which Francisco, strategically aided by his little brother, perform an original composition about a car cras......more