With his dazzling debut, Tularosa, Michael McGarrity was hailed "a born storyteller" (Denver Post) and introduced readers to a memorable new hero, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney. Now, featuring his vivid feel for the southwest, McGarrity's second gripping novel hurls Kerney onto the to[...]

The bushwhack killing of a deputy sheriff in Lincoln County and the brutal murder of the deputy's wife in Santa Fe County bring Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his Mescalero Apache son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, back together. The double homicide investigation is soon linked to a major drug trafficking [...]

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-centu[...]