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Title: Serpent Gate by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 0-671-02146-X Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid read. Two good stories become one.
Comment: Kevin Kerny returns as author McGarrity delicately intertwines two seperate stories in 'Serpent Gate'.
Serpent gate begins with Kerny investigating a deranged man and his possible witnessing of a recent local homicide. But Robert Cordova holds other secrets in his head, whereas most find him crazy, Kerney befriends Cordova and starts to piece together a series of events that spans years and goes much deeper than expected. What is this Serpent Gate he keeps babbling on about?
However, just as this homicide seems to be put to rest and the case is almost shut, Kerny is swiftly reassigned to a burglary case. But not any burglary. It seems the New Mexico's governor's office has been robbed of precious art amounting to millions, an officer is killed during a routine traffic stop, a young afficiando woman has seemingly disapeared, and drugs keep popping up. All separate events? Not to Kerney as he starts to sense that something seems strangley familiar.
His arch-nemisis, drug lord DeLeon, (from 'Tulorosa') seems to have his hands all over this, and now Kerney must return the stolen property, solve the disapearance of the young lady, catch the cop killers, and apprehend DeLeon. He must do this why still keeping an occasional tab on Robert Cordova who seems to know something else important in his confused state of existance.
Soon Kerney is racing all over New Mexico seemingly to be both one step ahead of DeLeon, and then one step behind.
Author McGarrity does a fine, and 'believable' job in taking two completely different stories that could stand on their own and weave them together in such an entertaining way. There's just about everything in here for a great mystery: forensics, action, politics, lively charcaters, twists, etc.
I look forward to many more Kevin Kerny novels
Rating: 5
Summary: Really suspenseful
Comment: In Mountainair, New Mexico, special state police officer Kevin Kerney investigates the local murder of a police officer. The only possible lead in the case is a psychotic, who might have witnessed the murder. Starting with the mentally ill witness, Kevin begins to piece together a story about a bad cop prone to sexual violence.
As the case of the murdered cop winds down, Kerney starts to investigate the stealing of art worth over $8 million from the governor's mansion. Governor Springer wants this case resolved quickly and quietly. As Kevin begins his investigation he finds a link between a frequent female visitor to the mansion, who has disappeared and an old enemy from south of the border. Kevin knows that if this connection leads him to the missing art, it could also lead him to a deadly confrontation with a man who kills without thinking twice.
SERPENT GATE is the third Kerney mystery and like the previous two (TULAROSA and MEXICAN HAT), the novel is a tremendous southwest who-done-it. Kevin is a great character, whothrough his actions, helps the reader better understand the difference between justice and the law. The support cast helps propel the two investigations forward, and they dexterously blend into a fast-paced story line. Michael McGarrity is no longer a rising star because he has obviously arrived.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 3
Summary: Following the Backtrail
Comment: I came to this novel by way of McGarrity's later work and it is clear he gets better as he goes along. This tale does bog down a bit in th mountain snows and border drug culture and their multiple complications. Here and there bits of gratuitous violence mar the scene. I don't mind violence in a thriller, but some of this just does not seem to really move the plot. Despite that, if you have read some of his later novels with pleasure, it is worth picking this one up. Why not read this book? The three hundred plus pages make for a good two evening's read. Sure beats the T.V. and you can't beat the price.
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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: 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 Big Gamble by Michael McGarrity ISBN: 0451410998 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 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: Exit Wounds : A Novel of Suspense by J. A. Jance ISBN: 0380977311 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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