Michael McGarrity
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2003]
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.
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2000.
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.
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
As he investigates a murder in New Mexico, chief deputy Kevin Kerney finds himself facing a choice most policemen hope they will never have to make--do right by the law or by the heart.
5) Slow kill
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
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.
7) Tularosa
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Description
It's been two years since an on-the-job shooting forced ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney to retire. He is drawn back into action when Terry Yazzi, his former partner and the man responsible for his wounds, pleads for Kerney's help. Yazzi's son, a soldier, has disappeared in the barren desert surrounding the White Sands Missile Range.
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Death song
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Mexican hat
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 2
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Agent Kevin Kerney of the Fish and Game Department investigates wildlife smuggling and murder in the Gila wilderness of New Mexico. The probe collides with an FBI undercover operation. By the author of Tularosa.
11) Residue
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 13
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Retired police chief Kevin Kerney returns--this time as the prime suspect in a brutal cold-case murder. 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...
12) Head wounds
Author
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...
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Publisher
"SKORPION"
Pub. Date
[2003]
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.
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Kevin Kerney, the new police chief of Santa Fe, watches as the FBI whitewashes the murder of an ambassador's estranged wife.
Author
Series
Kerney family trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Kerney family trilogy volume 3
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
Kerney Family trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Dutton, Published by the Penguin Group
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.