Bag Limit

For the hunting and fishing law, see bag limits.

Bag Limit is a mystery novel written by Steven F. Havill, published in 2001.^[1] It was the last of nine crime novels featuring Bill Gastner, the reluctant sheriff of Posados County, who had previously appeared in Dead Weight (2000).^[2][1]

Bag Limit

First edition
Author	Steven F. Havill
Language	English
Series	Bill Gastner #9
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Publication date	17 November 2001
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	336 pp
ISBN	0-312-25183-1
OCLC	47237670
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3558.A785 B34 2001
Preceded by	Dead Weight
Followed by	Scavengers

Plot summary

Sheriff Bill Gastner hopes his last few days in office will be uneventful, but this is before a local 17-year-old named Matt Baca drives drunkenly into his cruiser. Baca stumbles drunkenly into the night as Gastner confronts him. He is later arrested passed out at his home. After kicking open sheriff Gastner's temporary cruisers window, he is transferred to a local Border Patrol unit. The transfer turns fatal when Baca pushes himself away, accidentally into a delivery trucks path. The plot thickens as the dead teens father is found dead in his kitchen the next morning. Thus bringing Gastner into a confusing set of clues to lead him to why Baca kept fighting his arrest, where is and where did he get his fake I.D., and who was involved in the struggle with Matt Baca's father leading to his death.

Reception

A review of Bag Limit in Publishers Weekly said, "Unfortunately, crime fans with even the slightest taste for action are going to be fidgeting after the first hundred sluggish pages."^[1]