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Slow Kill (Kevin Kerney #9)
by
Michael McGarrity (Goodreads Author)
Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney travels to a California ranch looking to buy some prime quarter horse breeding stock. Instead, he finds himself the prime suspect in a possible homicide when the ranch owner, Clifford Spalding, is found dead. Confronted by a determined cop unwilling to let him off the hook, Kerney decides to conduct his own investigation. As he digs into...more
ebook, 352 pages
Published
August 2nd 2005
by Onyx Books
(first published August 19th 2004)
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RATING: 4.25
Kevin Kerney has traveled a long way over the course of nine books, but he's really settled in very successfully in as the chief of police in the Santa Fe Police Department. He's also a rancher, and the book opens with him traveling to California to buy some horses for himself and his neighbor. When another buyer sharing his living quarters is found dead, Kerney is briefly considered a suspect. Once he's cleared, he's motivated to conduct an investigation of his own; and his departme...more
Kevin Kerney has traveled a long way over the course of nine books, but he's really settled in very successfully in as the chief of police in the Santa Fe Police Department. He's also a rancher, and the book opens with him traveling to California to buy some horses for himself and his neighbor. When another buyer sharing his living quarters is found dead, Kerney is briefly considered a suspect. Once he's cleared, he's motivated to conduct an investigation of his own; and his departme...more
Oct 03, 2008
Ed
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Police Procedural Fans
Shelves:
crime-fiction,
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McGarrity,s novels appeal to me for a number of reasons.
One, they are procedural but not boringly so. Two, most of the action takes place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a most interesting place. Three, The characters are well-drawn and believable.
Kevin Kearney, the police chief protagonist is presented as someone who screws up once in a while and sometimes gets in over his head unlike the characters in thrillers by Vince Flynn, Lee Childs and others.
He also has to deal with a long-distance marriage...more
One, they are procedural but not boringly so. Two, most of the action takes place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a most interesting place. Three, The characters are well-drawn and believable.
Kevin Kearney, the police chief protagonist is presented as someone who screws up once in a while and sometimes gets in over his head unlike the characters in thrillers by Vince Flynn, Lee Childs and others.
He also has to deal with a long-distance marriage...more
I really wanted to like McGarrity's stories but they just don't have an ending,,, except that he stops writing.
The characters are engaging (if a little two dimensional) but the crime (in this case anyway) is convoluted and unlikely.
George Guidall is the saving grace. His performance let me give this book more stars than I would have without him.
I think this is my 3rd McGarrity book but there won't be a fourth. I'm truly sorry Mr. McGarrity -- I really did try
The characters are engaging (if a little two dimensional) but the crime (in this case anyway) is convoluted and unlikely.
George Guidall is the saving grace. His performance let me give this book more stars than I would have without him.
I think this is my 3rd McGarrity book but there won't be a fourth. I'm truly sorry Mr. McGarrity -- I really did try
Starts off slow but gets better. For me the most interesting part was learning the procedural facts of identifying the dead bodies of soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam war. The rest of the criminal plot was not unusual... man dies, is it natural causes, or did someone kill this wealthy man skillfully so it looked that way? Who but the wife is suspect? Not one of my favorites in the Kevin Kerney series.
Sheriff Kevin Kearney heads to California to buy horses, and finds himself involved in a mystery regarding the death of a fellow horse purchaser. An intrigue into a missing Viet Nam vet prompts Kearney to use his wife's connections to pursue answers to that mystery. This is a good,straightforward who-done-it. I love the characters' interactions. Sensible and believable.
Good change of pace for Kerney. He is learning to let his subordinates do some of the work. His marriage would be doomed if he wasn't loaded with money, thats for sure. She seems only happy to be part of his life when he buys her expensive houses.
I enjoyed the book, it was a good mystery and the details about the horses were fairly good. The only thing that was glaringly wrong was that no one would buy a race horse to train to become a cutting horse. That is why I gave it only 4 stars.
Loved it. Complex plot kept me guessing. The protagonist seems like a real guy with all sorts of personal problems to deal with as he moves along in his professional life. McGarrity keeps getting better.
Slow build-up in the initial 1/3, but the story builds up well. Plots are realistic enough, with no big drama. Good details on the otherwise mundane police work. A reasonable read.
I skimmed to the end about 3/4 through it. It just went way too slow for what was actually going on.
This author gets better with each edition. He still ends books a little abruptly.
I love this series, but this one did not capture my attention as much as previous books.
Another good story with lots of NM trivia. Fast read.
Modern lawman mystery set in New Mexico.
The book is good, but I think McGarrity spend too much time in cops bureaucracy instead of the story itself.
The New Mexico and California landscape description is fantastic and the story was well thinked, but, as I said before, was not well developed.
If you are a huge fan of NM landscapes, culture and vocabulary, this may be the right serie for you!
The New Mexico and California landscape description is fantastic and the story was well thinked, but, as I said before, was not well developed.
If you are a huge fan of NM landscapes, culture and vocabulary, this may be the right serie for you!
Michael McGarrity returns with the latest installment of his series featuring Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney. Kerney travels outside of New Mexico and becomes a murder suspect. The case has ties to Santa Fe, the FBI, and a Vietnam KIA. Smooth reading.
Published in hardcover by Dutton.
Published in hardcover by Dutton.
Authors of series need to change up the scenery for a book or two, sure, but when one of the best thing about a series is its location, that strategy doesn't work to hold reader interest. Still, not a bad mystery.
It had been a while since I had read anything by Michael McGarrity and now I am wondering why. For some reason his name and books slipped from my "to read" list, but now he is back near the top.
A great mystery and whodunit. I enjoyed this book. Not the greatest I have read but a very good read and recommend.
Good mystery - a little weak on the ending. Listened to this audiobook.
A good read...I think I will explore this series some more.
This Mc Garrity book was a little different, more of a police procedural, but still interesting. Kearney pretty much just oversees agencies in CA & AZ to resolve the murder of Clifford Spaulding
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