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"Michael McGarrity's early Kevin Kerney novels combined razor-sharp
procedural detail with a gripping noirish edge," raves "Booklist.
"Available for the first time in years is "Hermit's Peak, "a
seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico
lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman's
heroes--while carving out territory that is distinctly his own
across the American Southwest.
While visiting 6,400 acres of high-country land he unexpectedly
inherited, Kevin Kerney finds the bones of a murder victim near
rugged Hermit's Peak. Then a second body turns up--and following a
twisting trail of blood to unearth the shattering truth may come at
a price higher than the deputy chief ever imagined.
In this gripping story, the broken lives of siblings Raymond and
Barbara Lansdale are tenuously held together by their childhood
fantasy of The Long Ago: a distant place where happiness and
tranquility reign, far removed from the fears and fights at home.
To escape his painful memories, Raymond joined the army and found a
career that gave him purpose and a sense of adventure. But news of
his kid sister Barbara's sudden disappearance brings him back
during a short leave before returning to active duty and another
deployment to Vietnam. Embarking on a search that takes him from
majestic Montana ranchlands and glittering Hollywood to the mean
streets of LA, Ray is forced to confront his worst nightmare. What
if Barbara's search for The Long Ago ended in a shallow, unmarked
grave, not the carefree life she'd once imagined? Richly crafted,
The Long Ago is a spin-off from McGarrity's Kevin Kerney family
saga.
Given a chance to salvage his law enforcement career, Dona Ana
County Sheriff's Detective Clayton Istee catches a bizarre
late-night double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel. Both victims, a
man and a woman, have been scalped with their throats cut. The
murders show all the signs of a signature hit, but national and
state crime databases reveal no similar profiles. Digging into the
victims' backgrounds, Clayton discovers that six months prior the
couple had walked out of a nearby casino with $200,000 of a
high-stakes gambler's money. He also learns the crime had been
hushed up by an undercover federal DEA agent, who resurfaces and
recruits Clayton for a dangerous mission to seize the Mexican drug
lord responsible for the killings. Thrust into the nightmare world
of borderland drug wars and corrupt cops, Clayton duels with a
cunning assassin poised to kill him and his family in a ferocious
climax to the Kevin Kerney series that is sure to stun.
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Slow Kill (Paperback)
Michael McGarrity
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Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney travels to a California ranch
looking to buy some prime quarter horse breeding stock. Instead, he
finds himself the prime suspect in a possible homicide when a guest
at the ranch, Clifford Spalding, is found dead. Confronted by a
determined cop unwilling to let him off the hook, Kerney decides to
conduct his own investigation. As he digs into the victim's
background, he learns that Spalding's ex-wife refuses to believe
that her son, a soldier killed in Vietnam some thirty years ago, is
dead. Kerney digs deeper and soon finds himself sharing the woman's
doubts: Did Spalding's current wife, a much younger woman,
orchestrate his murder with the help of a lover? Did a California
cop collude with Spalding to keep his ex-wife from learning the
truth about her son? Slow Kill races from West Coast to East Coast
as Kerney attempts to find the answers to a thirty-year-old mystery
and extricate himself from a situation that could ruin his career.
It's been two years since an on-the-job shooting forced ex-Santa Fe
chief of detectives Kevin Kerney to retire. He is drawn back into
action when Terry Yazzi, his former partner and the man responsible
for his wounds, pleads for Kerney's help. Yazzi's son, a soldier,
has disappeared in the barren desert surrounding the White Sands
Missile Range. Kerney's investigation resurrects the long-forgotten
thrill of the hunt-and other emotions surface after meeting the
tough-but-beautiful Capt. Sara Brannon, the Army's investigating
officer. Together, they uncover a crime far greater than an AWOL
soldier: a conspiracy of death that snakes from the secretive world
of military operations, to the cutthroat alleys of a Mexican border
town, leading them to a final, shocking revelation that may cost
them both their lives. Tularosa is the first book in McGarrity's
"Kevin Kerney" crime series.
A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous
women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier.
"Hard Country" is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's
struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New
Mexico.
In the wake of the death of his wife as she gives birth to his
son, and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John
Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and
strike out in search of the murderous outlaws and a place where he
can start over. He drifts south until he meets a man who offers him
work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory and forever
changes his life.
Spanning the years of 1875 to 1918, "Hard Country "is the Western
reinvented and enlarged into a saga that above all celebrates the
people and the land of the great Southwest.
Tularosa--"the place of reddish willows" in Spanish--holds the key
to Kevin Kerney's past and his future. Ex-chief of detectives in
the Santa Fe Police Department, shoved into early retirement by a
shot-up leg, Kerney is fresher in body and mind than he realizes
when Navajo Indian Terry Yazzi, his ex-partner and the man
responsible for his injuries, asks him to locate his son, reported
AWOL from the high-security White Sands Missile Range in southern
New Mexico. To find Sammy Yazzi, Kerney must track clues that lead
deep into the histories of the region-Native American, Hispanic,
and Anglo-and, compellingly, into his own family's ranching past.
And he must deal with the complicated feelings triggered by the
officer in charge of the army's own investigation, Captain Sara
Brannon, a fiery young officer as formidable as she is attractive.
As Sammy's trail spirals into a web of murder, treason, and the
smuggling of priceless artifacts, Kerney and Brannon travel an
accelerating arc across the New Mexico scene--from the
boutique-ridden plaza of Santa Fe, through the sharp-edged beauty
of the high desert, to bordertown gambling dens--to a final
confrontation in which, both wounded and at risk, they must fight
for their lives and for each other against opponents who hold all
the cards. Tularosa begins a series featuring Kevin Kerney. In each
book Kerney investigates a mystery in today's New Mexico with roots
in the rich history of this fascinating region.
Seasoned on every page by his real-life experience as a Sante Fe
deputy sheriff, Michael McGarrity's early Kevin Kerney novels
shimmer with "precise realism" ("Booklist "), as they immerse
readers in the "excitement, color, and character" ("The Denver Post
") of life on the job for one of crime fiction's most unforgettable
Southwestern lawmen.
A small-town cop killing remains unsolved, and Kevin Kerney pursues
the case's only lead: a homeless man's ramblings about an uncharted
place called Serpent Gate. Then an art theft at the governor's
offices and the murder of a sexy young blonde lure him back to
Sante Fe, then to Mexico, where a face off with an old nemesis
awaits--and where Kerney must choose between vengeance, loyalty,
and justice.
"A taut and tidy thriller"("San Diego Union-Tribune") focusing on a
manhunt for a deranged killer--from the nationally bestselling
author who "gets better and better."("Tony Hillerman ")
Living in London while his wife serves as a military attache at the
American Embassy, recently retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin
Kerney gets an early morning phone call that changes everything and
sends him hurrying home to his New Mexico ranch. Riley Burke, his
partner in a horse-training enterprise, has been mowed down on
Kerney's doorstep by an escaped prisoner cutting a murderous swath
through New Mexico.
As the killings mount, Kerney teams up with his half-Apache son,
Lieutenant Clayton Istee of the Lincoln County Sheriff's
Department, to hunt for a psychotic murderer with a growing
appetite for blood--who has no intention of being taken alive.
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