Dead or Alive

Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney is on the hunt for a deranged killer in this “taut and tidy thriller”(San Diego Union-Tribune) from the New York Times bestselling author of Residue.

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 Kerney’s doorstep by an escaped prisoner cutting a murderous swath through New Mexico.

As the killings mount, Kerney teams up with his half-Apache son, Lieutenant Clayton Istee of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department, to hunt for a psychotic murderer with a growing appetite for blood—who has no intention of being taken alive.Praise for the Kevin Kerney Novels

“McGarrity has a cunning mind for crime fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review

“If you have never read Michael McGarrity, then do yourself a favor.”—Harlan Coben

“McGarrity gets better and better. How good it is to follow a detective created by a man who has been there and done that.”—Tony HillermanMichael McGarrity is the author of the national bestselling Kevin Kerney crime novels, beginning with Tularosa and Mexican Hat, and his American West Trilogy historical novels. A former psychotherapist and deputy sheriff whose career in criminal justice spanned more than twenty-five years, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.