Michael McGarrity

When the body of a woman who went missing years earlier is discovered in a burned-down fruit stand, Police Chief Kevin Kerney finds himself cooperating with his estranged son, Deputy Sheriff Clayton Istee.

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.

Wrongly accused of murder while visiting a California ranch, Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney conducts his own investigation, wondering if there is a connection to the victim's son, a believed-killed Vietnam soldier who may be alive.

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 son.

Working as an adviser for a western being filmed in New Mexico, Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney finds the murdered body of a young man near a Mexican border crossing and discovers that a drug-smuggling operation may be responsible.

"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...

Returning home from Vietnam when his sister goes missing, soldier Ray Landsdale embarks on a relentless search that takes him from Montana to Hollywood to L.A. and beyond, forcing him to confront his worst nightmare.

Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the nineteenth century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory.

"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...