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Title: Another great one
Review: Chief Kerney--an honorable, determined, empathetic New Mexican rancher-trooper--is here up against one of the craziest passels of suspects imaginable, in a return to his natal area of the debut novel, Tularosa. The spree crimes are initially rural and simple, but the detection of the connections is not. Rather than lots of action, ex-cop author McGarrity focuses here on dogged police interviews, a skill rarely presented "on-stage" in thrillers. We see a new hard-nosed Kerney who persistently intimidates female witnesses--key to solving the crimes but somewhat unexplained. Conversely, Kerney's unusually well-developed personal history continues to grow, with surprising new family strains for this sensitive guy. The author spins compelling storiees with great pacing and always an enveloping sense of empty desert places and transient people. Kerney seems real, he has a life apart from his cases; I hope he doesn't retire!
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