Police dramas can be rewarding, intriguing and enlightening or they can be dry, tedious and an obvious opportunity for the author to relive their police days in excruciatingly minute detail--this book was the latter. Incorporated in this basic plot of a serial killer stalking a police chief for u...
Kevin Kerney is a deputy state police chief in New Mexico. During one of his investigations, he met a woman named Sara Brannon; and they began a relationship. Unfortunately, they were soon to be separated, as Sara was a major in the military and got posted to Korea where she is responsible for mo...
This book is in the excellent tradition of Men’s Fiction. I’m not being sarcastic, I’m being serious. We got the hero, the girl and “Mission Accomplished” ™Men’s Fiction is a truly awesome category in the best tradition of virtually every great writer. It’s always a page turner. The protagonist (...
Kevin Kerney, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives and ex-rancher is working as a seasonal forest ranger in the Gila Wilderness and banking his pay toward the down payment on a small ranch. Despite the county militia's planting pipe bombs on hiking trails, Kerney looks forward to a quiet summer in the...
Newly-installed Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives a deadly welcome when a U.S. ambassador's ex-wife is brutally stabbed to death in her home. But before Kerney can begin to investigate, the FBI closes the case with trumped-up evidence. And the harder Kerney hunts for the truth, the more...
Michael McGarrity's eleventh novel in the acclaimed Kevin Kerney series achieves a new depth of masterful storytelling and a plot that will captivate readers. With McGarrity's rich, personal knowledge of police work displayed on every page, and his stunning visual sense of place in the vast New M...
RATING: 4.25Kevin Kerney has traveled a long way over the course of nine books, but he's really settled in very successfully in as the chief of police in the Santa Fe Police Department. He's also a rancher, and the book opens with him traveling to California to buy some horses for himself and hi...
Cal asked.“I’m fine,” Emma replied, “but because I lost the last two after the third month, I’m not to do heavy physical work and must rest frequently.”“No riding your pony either,” Patrick reminded her. “She’s to see the doctor every two weeks until the baby comes.”“We can get you a buggy for to...
Only his scheme to fence the pasture he’d bought adjacent to the Rocking J as a hedge against drought had saved him from having no grass at all. But he’d borrowed against the land, and unless he got the loan extended, he’d lose it and be forced to bring the animals back to the lower pasture near ...
In it, she ordered the Kerney clan to arrive on Friday afternoon and stay as her guests over the weekend. Regrets would not be acceptable and costumes at the party were required, including masks. And no, Matt and Kevin couldn’t come as cowboys; that would be cheating. The ...
He left her securely tied up before raiding the well-stocked liquor cabinet in the living room and then crashing in the smaller, second bedroom. He slept twelve hours, woke up refreshed, and wrapped himself in a bathrobe before making coffee in the kitchen. While the coffee brewed, he transferred...
As a child, Clayton had toured the fort with his uncles, to see the place the white eyes had built to wage war against the Mescaleros and confine them to the reservation. Opened in the 1850s and decommissioned as a military installation just before the turn of the twentieth century, the fort had ...
Jackrabbits skittered across the empty streets of Playas, and a resident roadrunner stood frozen on its large feet for a long moment before it pumped its tail feathers up and down and trotted away. Under the overcast sky the expanse of the valley yawned as far as the eye c...
Armed with a list of low-grade snitches grudgingly provided by a customs agent who wasn't about to turn over his most valuable confidential informants to a cop he didn't know, Kerney got to work. El Paso filled barren hills stubbed up against the Rio Grande, and spread like a bloated octopus into...