Michael McGarrity, Author . Dutton $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-94604-5
Popular cop Kevin Kerney acquires new depth and substance in this sixth installment in McGarrity's solid series. In his previous job as deputy chief of the state police, Kerney killed a cop gone bad. Now he is settling into his new job as police
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Michael McGarrity, Author . Dutton $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-94656-4
Smooth writing, well-drawn characters and several neat plot twists distinguish the seventh Kevin Kerney novel from Anthony Award–nominee and former deputy sheriff McGarrity (Tularosa). Never losing sight of his people in the forensic detail,...
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Michael McGarrity, Author . Dutton $23.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-525-94761-5
The questions and concerns of relationships, both everyday and extraordinary, personal and professional, lie at the heart of McGarrity's ninth entry in his Kevin Kerney series of police procedurals (The Big Gamble; Tularosa; The Judas Judge)....
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Michael McGarrity, Author . Dutton $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-94799-8
In McGarrity's latest Kevin Kerney procedural, Kerney, police chief of Santa Fe, N.Mex., is drawn into a messy murder investigation while vacationing at a California ranch. A wealthy hotel magnate, Clifford Spalding, dies of poisoning in the...
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Michael McGarrity, Author . Dutton $24.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-525-94916-9
Returning from 2004's Slow Kill
, stoic Sante Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives an unexpected visit from Johnny Jordan, a childhood friend and now cantankerous former rodeo pro, who convinces Kerney to serve as a technical adviser in the...
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Michael McGarrity, Author . Dutton $24.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-525-95036-3
McGarrity’s solid eighth police procedural to feature Santa Fe County, N.Mex., police chief Kevin Kerney (after 2005’s Nothing but Trouble
) opens on a deceptively quiet note as Sgt. Clayton Istee of the Lincoln County sheriff’s...
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Michael McGarrity, Author . Dutton $25.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-525-95081-3
McGarrity's 12th Kevin Kerney novel (after Death Song
) displays the author's usual fine sense of place along with an unusual amount of gore. When escaped convict Craig Larson goes on a rampage that includes the murder of Riley Burke, a...
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Michael McGarrity, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-03922-1
Few first mysteries are as fresh and powerful as this rich Southwestern tale of tough, credible characters involved in a complex, danger-fraught plot centering around stolen historical artifacts. Kevin Kerney is still recovering from the physical...
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Michael McGarrity, Author Pocket Star Books $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-00252-7
Of this debut mystery, PW wrote: ""Blending an air of the old West with some very modern characters, McGarrity delivers atmosphere, action, romance and prime satisfaction."" (Apr.)
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Michael McGarrity, Author Scribner Book Company $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-85076-4
McGarrity delivers another complex and powerful suspense novel in this follow-up to Mexican Hat (1997). Retired New Mexico cop Kevin Kerney is hired by his friend Andy Baca, now New Mexico State Police Chief, to investigate the murder of Paul...
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Michael McGarrity, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-94547-5
McGarrity's novels keep getting richer as they change focus slightly with each new publisher. This novel, the fifth in the series, is the first to be issued by Dutton, McGarrity's third publisher; it's also the most personal book of the series, with
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Michael McGarrity, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-04063-0
McGarrity delivers on the promise of his accomplished debut in Tularosa (1996) with his second Kevin Kerney novel. A large cast of tough, believable characters brings life to a complex, action-filled plot that combines animal poaching, smuggling and
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Michael McGarrity. Dutton, $28.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-525-95246-6
This sprawling western saga shakes trail dust through three generations of New Mexico ranchers carving out a place in the Tularosa Basin at the end of the frontier era. McGarrity, a former Santa Fe deputy sheriff and author of the long-running Kevin
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Michael McGarrity. Dutton, $28.95. ISBN 978-0-525-95324-1
McGarrity's hefty middle title is part of the trilogy set in the American West, after Hard Country. Emma Kerney, dying from a bad heart, lives in the frontier town of La Cruces, New Mexico, with her eight-year-old son Matthew during the 1920s....
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Michael McGarrity. Norton, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-63435-8
Multiple plot contrivances mar bestseller McGarrity’s 13th mystery featuring former police chief Kevin Kerney (after 2008’s Dead or Alive). Kevin is looking forward to celebrating his wife Sara Brannon’s retirement from the U.S. Army when he gets a...
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Michael McGarrity. Norton, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-324-00285-7
Bestseller McGarrity’s exceptional 14th Kevin Kerney novel (after 2018’s Residue) focuses on the retired police chief’s son, Clayton Istee, a sheriff’s detective in Doña Ana County, N.Mex. Clayton, who’s dispatched to a hotel where someone scalped a
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