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.

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.

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.

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.

"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...