# Privileged to Kill

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- Authors: [Steven Havill](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-havill)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2012-06-30

## Description

" Havill... quietly continues a project virtually unique in detective fiction: anchoring his tales of crime and punishment as closely as possible in the rhythms of small-town friends, routines, and calamities." --Kirkus ReviewsRolling stone Wesley Crocker seems a harmless enough free spirit when Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner offers him a lift on the road and spots him a free dinner. Crocker beds down for the night with his gear on the high-school athletic field. By morning, 13-year-old Maria Ibarra is found under the high-school football bleachers a few feet away and Crocker goes straight to jail. His account of how he passed the night is full of enough holes to keep him locked down, but meanwhile a background check on Maria raises troubling questions about her life....

## Editions

### Privileged to Kill

- Publisher: poisoned_pen_press
- ISBN: 978-18-9020-865-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2012-06-30
- Language: en_US