Michael McGarrity
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"Growing up in Montana, siblings Raymond and Barbara Lansdale held their chaotic world together through their shared childhood fantasy of The Long Ago: a distant place where happiness and tranquility reigned, far from the dysfunction at home. But imagination only goes so far. To escape his painful past, Ray joins the army and finds a career that gives him a sense of purpose and the promise of adventure. Recent news of his kid sister's disappearance...
2) Head wounds
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"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...
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 12
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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.
4) Residue
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"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...
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 5
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Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney is weeks away from trading in his badge for a rancher's hat, when six murders are committed at a remote campground in New Mexico. Most of the evidence points to the work of a spree killer, but peculiarities at one crime scene suggest another grisly possibility: that five random people have been shot to death to cover the premeditated murder of the sixth, Vernon Langsford, a retired judge and wealthy businessman....
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 11
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Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his Mescalero Apache son reunite to investigate the ambush killing of a deputy sheriff, a probe that leads to a major drug trafficking scheme and the search for the slain officer's troubled teenage son.
7) Mexican hat
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 2
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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.
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 3
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In New Mexico, former policeman Kevin Kerney investigates the theft of millions of dollars' worth of art work from the mansion of the state governor. At the same time he has to find the killer of a patrolman.
9) Tularosa
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 1
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Former Santa Fe detective Kevin Kerney probes the murder of a friend's son, an officer on a missile base in New Mexico. Kerney teams up with the woman leading the base's own investigation and they uncover a racket, men smuggling antique weapons and gold coins across the border.
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 6
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He's returned to Santa Fe, newly installed as police chief, when a U.S. ambassador's estranged wife is found murdered in her multimillion-dollar home. Before he can mount a proper investigation, an FBI anti-terrorism team arrives, takes control of the inquiry, and forces Kerney to watch from the sidelines as the crime scene is sanitized, potential witnesses disappear, and the case is cleared with trumped-up evidence. Warned off, put under surveillance,...
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Kerney Family trilogy volume 1
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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.
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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.
13) Hermit's Peak
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 4
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A new mystery for Kevin Kerney of the New Mexico State Police involves an investigation into the apparent murder of an unidentified woman whose bones Kerney found on a beautiful ranch that he just inherited.
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 10
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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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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 by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for expanded weapons testing. Forced off public grazing lands, banned from gathering his cattle on high mountain pastures, and confronted by military police...
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"An expansive, epic tale like Philipp Meyer's The Son, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his keen eye for historical detail, awe-inspiring scenery, and the bitter harshness of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century frontier West. Michael McGarrity returns with the second installment of his sweeping, richly authentic New York Times bestselling American West trilogy set...