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Author
Series
Kerney Family trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
Author
Series
American West trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
"An expansive, epic tale like Philipp Meyer's The Son, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his keen eye for historical detail, awe-inspiring scenery, and the bitter harshness of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century frontier West. Michael McGarrity returns with the second installment of his sweeping, richly authentic New York Times bestselling American West trilogy set...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The grand saga of an American ranching family continues in The Last Ranch, the final, mesmerizing book of New York Times bestseller Michael McGarrity's gripping and richly authentic American West trilogy. When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A vicious multiple murder and the shooting of a corrupt police officer draw Sheriff Kevin Kerney, a former Santa Fe police detective, into a baffling and dangerous investigation into police corruption and murder extending to the highest levels of state government.
5) Tularosa
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed as a born storyteller by critics, Michael McGarrity packs his powerful mystery with Southwestern lore and breath-taking action. In a wicked conspiracy reaching across the Mexican border, Tularosa pits a jaded ex-cop against tight-lipped Army personnel, hired thugs, and smooth-talking outlaws. Forced into retirement by a crippling gunshot wound, Santa Fe policeman Kevin Kerney seeks solitude on a small New Mexico ranch far from the nearest...
6) Mexican hat
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Critically acclaimed author Michael McGarrity's powerful tale is packed with constant surprises and non-stop action. When retired Santa Fe detective Kevin Kerney discovers a mysterious body, his quiet summer in the Gila Wilderness is interrupted. Narrator George Guidall holds you spellbound as Kerney tangles with a modern paramilitary group and a vicious 60-year-old feud.
7) Head wounds
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Clayton Istee investigates New Mexico borderland killings by an elusive Mexican assassin with ties to a drug cartel. In Michael McGarrity's final, propulsive Kevin Kerney novel, the nightmare of the Mexican drug wars spills across the border with the discovery of a couple in a Las Cruces hotel, scalped with their throats cut. Because of the unusual MO, Detective Clayton Istee suspects that the murders are drug related, but a lack of evidence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In Lincoln County, New Mexico, the slaying of a deputy sheriff and his wife reunites Police Chief Kerney and his son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, on the bloody trail of drug-running killers.
Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his Mescalero Apache son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, reunite to investigate the ambush killing of a Lincoln County deputy sheriff, a probe that leads to a major drug trafficking scheme and the search for the slain officer's troubled teenage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Recently retired Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin 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 to be taken alive.
10) Serpent gate
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
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 he knows that he may not survive the chase.
Author
Series
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A corpse turns up in rural New Mexico, and leads the local police chief through a world of gambling, sex, and hedonism as practiced by wealthy VIPs. Pursuing the case, he works with a deputy sheriff, undeterred by the fact that the deputy is his estranged son
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney finds the dead body of hotel magnate Clifford Spalding, he thinks he knows who to talk to, as the deceased man had known enemies. But little does Kerney know that the truth may go back 30 years to the day when Spalding's son mysteriously disappeared.
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
When a prominent homosexual lawyer is murdered, Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney directs his staff along elusive leads that result in two additional deaths and the discovery of a chilling series of killings.
17) Hermit's Peak
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, inherits an unexpected windfall of 6,400 acres of high-county land, the last thing he wants to think about is work. But while visiting his new property, he comes across an ailing stray dog that leads him to the butchered bones of a murder victim near the rugged mountain of Hermit's Peak. After assigning the case to his subordinates, Kerney returns to Santa Fe to spend time with a woman...
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