Michael McGarrity
1) The long ago
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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...
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Before newly installed police chief Kevin Kerney can discover who murdered a U.S. ambassador's estranged wife, the FBI takes over the investigation, and soon witnesses vanish and the case is neatly solved, but Kerney is convinced that he is in the midst of an intelligence cover-up riddled with devious government agents and must race against time to uncover the truth. Reprint.
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Kevin Kerney novel volume 8
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English
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Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his wife, Lieutenant ColonelSara Brannon, are on leave, awaiting the birth of their son, when a prominent gay attorney is murdered by an assailant that promises to murder them and their unborn son.
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Kevin Kerney novel volume 12
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English
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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.
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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.
7) Hard country
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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.
8) 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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American west trilogy volume 3
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"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...
11) Residue
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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...
12) Hermit's peak
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English
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Kevin Kerney of the New Mexico State Police launches an investigation into the apparent murder of an unidentified woman whose bones he found on a beautiful ranch that he just inherited.
13) The Judas judge
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Kevin Kerney novel volume 5
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English
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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.
14) Mexican hat
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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.
17) Death song
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Dutton
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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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.
18) Tularosa
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1996]
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English
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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.