Bitter Recoil — Steven F. Havill

OBSESSION TAKES AIM…

It's undersheriff Bill Gastner's most difficult assignment: going on a healthy, relaxing vacation. This hardheaded lawman isn't sure he can survive the hiking, the nonspicy, unfried food and the lack of crimes to solve. So he's glad to help his ex-protégé investigate a hit-and-run "accident" that's killed single mother Cecelia Burgess -- and left her young daughter, Daisy, alone. More than one person wanted Cecelia to die on that lonely New Mexico back road.

But when others related to the case are murdered, too, Bill realizes someone is shadowing his investigation. Someone vengeful and twisted enough to take out the guilty and innocent alike. If Bill has any hope of saving Daisy, he'll have to use himself as bait -- and face down a killer driven by obsession darker than the desert night…