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Title: The Big Gamble by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 0-451-41099-8 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: fascinating police procedural
Comment: On a little traveled road in Lincoln County, New Mexico at the site of a burned down fruit stand, two bodies are found in the remaining rumble. One body is that of small time gambler Joseph John who recently struck it big on the reservation casino while the other corpse is that of Anne Marie Montoya, a woman who disappeared into thin air one decade ago.
The primary on the Montoya case is Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney and the man in charge of the Humphrey investigation is Deputy Sheriff Clayton Istee. Although the two men are father and son, neither knew about the relationship until recently. Clayton would prefer to forget about the relationship but when the two cases intersect in an unexpected manner, the two men are forced to work together and take a step closer to forming a relationship.
Like Tony Hillerman before him, Michael McGarrity puts the state of New Mexico on the map. His style is smooth, subtle and his storytelling abilities keep the reader in thrall, wondering what will happen next. THE BIG GAMBLE is no gamble at all for reader; it is a surefire winner for anyone who likes a fascinating police procedural.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: Another winner for Michael McGarrity
Comment: Michael McGarrity's "The Big Gamble" is a fascinating and believable police procedural vividly set in New Mexico.
Two bodies (seemingly unrelated) are discovered after a fire of dubious origin. One is an eleven-year-old cold case from Kevin Kerney's past. His estranged son is the primary for the other victim.
The plot follows the pair of investigations that eventually uncover a huge ring of gambling, prostitution, drugs, money laundering and politicians. The villains are high-ranking politicos, plus one evil gunsel.
A credible resolution that opens the possibility for continued pairing of Kerney and his son.
This seventh book in the Kevin Kerney series is just as fresh as the first---one reason being that Kerney has held various positions in New Mexico law enforcement in different locales.
Great series by a most under discovered writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth It!
Comment: Billed as one in the "Kevin Kerney" series, this novel is really more about his estranged son Deputy Sheriff Clayton Istee. While it could be read as a stand alone novel, potential readers would be wise to go back to the beginning and work their way forward to this one. I am deliberately ignoring the back-story involving Clayton and Kevin, as well as numerous other issues which continue in this novel, so as not to run the series for new readers.
As this novel opens, a fire is burning in the predawn light of Lincoln County, New Mexico. Deputy Sheriff Clayton Istee watches the fire fade out from the efforts of the volunteer firefighters and is there for the discovery of one and then a second body. Both bodies are found in the cellar rubble of an abandoned fruit stand by the side of the highway and at what is left of one body makes it clear that the body has been there for a very long time. Clayton Istee left the Mescalero Tribal Police and joined the Sheriff's Department three months ago and Sheriff Hewitt wants Clayton to work the case, his first major case in the Sheriff's Department
Before long, it is determined that one of the bodies is female and she is identified as Anna Marie Montoya who has been missing for over ten years. As Clayton investigates, he has no choice but to deal with his father, Kevin Kerney, now Chief of Police for Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kerney was the lead investigator for the case ten years ago and was never able to find her or find a lead despite extensive investigation. She vanished without a trace until now. With the identification of the second body, links to the past and present begin to connect leading Clayton and Kerney towards a possible reconciliation as well as towards a showdown with corrupt politicians and criminal enterprises that stretch across state boundaries.
As in his other novels, this novel is told from the omnipresent narrator viewpoint, shifting back and forth constantly between the various characters. The characters of Clayton Istee and Kevin Kerney are further developed, but at considerable distance. A lack of emotion even in scenes depicting complex emotion as well as a stiffness in the writing remains for this reader regarding the author, but as the novels begin to stack up, one that is becoming more and more acceptable. Every author has his or her own unique style or idiosyncrasy to the writing and this apparently is Michael McGarrity's own style.
While somewhat lacking in the emotionality department, the author has a real talent for bring the culture and landscape of Southwestern New Mexico alive for the reader. Like others in this series, he has once again created a complex twisting mystery full of intrigue and deceit that keeps the reader turning the page and well worth your time.
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Title: Under the Color of the Law by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 0451410440 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Judas Judge by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 0451203607 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Everyone Dies: A Kevin Kerney Novel by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 0525947612 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Hermit's Peak by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 0671021478 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Serpent Gate by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 067102146X Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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