News/Events

Residue

01/07/2025

When the bones of a woman are discovered on the property of an old family friend, Kevin Kerney is arrested for the forty-five-year old homicide of Kim Ward, his college girlfriend. Charged with the crime by his son, New Mexico State Police Lieutenant Clayton Istee, Kerney must prove his innocence in the face of compelling Learn More

Dead Or Alive

01/07/2025

Living in London while his wife serves as a military attaché at the American Embassy, recently retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney gets an early morning phone call that changes everything and sends him hurrying home to his New Mexico ranch. Riley Burke, his partner in a horse-training enterprise, has been mowed down on Learn More

Death Song

01/07/2025

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 scheme and the cold-blooded slaughter of Learn More

Nothing But Trouble

01/07/2025

After years away on the pro rodeo circuit, Johnny Jordan struts into Santa Fe to ask his boyhood friend, Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney, to serve as a technical advisor on a contemporary Western movie to be filmed along the Mexican border. Kerney agrees and plans a working vacation on location, in a remote Learn More

Slow Kill

01/07/2025

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 Learn More

Everyone Dies

01/07/2025

With “a cunning mind for crime fiction” (New York Times Book Review), Anthony Award-nominated Michael McGarrity ratchets up the stakes in his novel of a vengeful killer with an unspeakable agenda: offing people with ties to the criminal justice system. Next on the list: Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney, his wife, Lieutenant Colonel Sara Learn More

The Big Gamble

01/07/2025

Michael McGarrity’s acclaimed Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney is back-with his estranged son. Two bodies have been found in a burned building. One is a missing person from Kerney’s cold case files. The other is a more recent homicide. Both will lead father and son into a vast network of crime…and the darkest places Learn More

Under The Color of Law

01/07/2025

Newly-installed Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives a deadly welcome when a U.S. ambassador’s ex-wife is brutally stabbed to death in her home. But before Kerney can begin to investigate, the FBI closes the case with trumped-up evidence. And the harder Kerney hunts for the truth, the more he knows that he may not Learn More

The Judas Judge

01/07/2025

“A roller-coaster ride…so much more than a murder mystery”   Colorado Springs Gazette In a remote New Mexico campground, six people are killed in an apparently senseless murder spree. Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney suspects the slaying wasn’t random at all—but rather a calculated plot to eliminate one high-profile victim, retired judge, Vernon Langsford. In Learn More

Hermit’s Peak

01/07/2025

“A series that has never been less than professional and is now approaching distinguished.”   The Philadelphia Inquirer When an old family friend unexpectedly leaves Kevin Kerney 6400 acres of high country land outside Las Vegas, New Mexico, the last thing he wants to think about is police work.  Taking a rare weekend off from his Learn More