Kevin Kerney mysteries
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1) Tularosa
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 1
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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...
2) Mexican Hat
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 2
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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.
3) Serpent Gate
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Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 3
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In this complex tale of greed and revenge, best-selling author Michael McGarrity shrewdly blends riveting action with magnificent southwestern scenery. Serpent Gate portrays former Santa Fe policeman Kevin Kerney in a perilous struggle against corrupt officers, New Mexico politicians, and a deadly enemy from the past. Recruited for the State police by the new chief, Kerney searches the mountainous countryside for a patrolman's killer. Quickly solving...
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Hermit's Peak: a Kevin Kerney novel , Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 4
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The Judas judge: a Kevin Kerney novel , Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 5
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Before newly installed police chief Kevin Kerney can discover who murdered a U.S. ambassador's estranged wife, the FBI takes over the investigation, and soon witnesses vanish and the case is neatly solved, but Kerney is convinced that he is in the midst of an intelligence cover-up riddled with devious government agents and must race against time to uncover the truth. Reprint.
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The big gamble: a Kevin Kerney novel , Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 7
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9) Slow Kill
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 9
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Nationally best-selling author Michael McGarrity's Slow Kill is a stunning addition to a series The New York Times hails as "robust." 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.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When pro rodeo star Johnny Jordan returns to Santa Fe, he asks his childhood friend, police chief Kevin Kerney, to serve as a consultant on a new film being staged along the Mexican border. On the road to the location, Kerney discovers the dead body of an undercover federal agent.
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Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author and former lawman Michael McGarrity's 11th Kevin Kerney novel further showcases this Anthony Award-nominated writer's talent for crafting stunning police stories. 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.
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Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney is horrified to learn that his horse-training partner, Riley Burke, has been murdered by an escaped prisoner, prompting Kerney to team up with his half-Apache son to hunt down the killer.
13) Residue
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 13
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A long-unsolved mystery gets a grim new break when the bones of Kim Ward are unearthed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, forty-five years after her disappearance. Suspicion swiftly falls on her old college boyfriend: none other than retired police chief Kevin Kerney.
The chief's hopes of clearing his name look bleak in the face of damning evidence compiled against him by State Police Lieutenant Clayton Istee-Kerney's own son. Left grasping for clues, with...
14) Head wounds
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Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 14
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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...