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Slow Kill A Kevin Kerney Novel Unabridged
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Slow Kill A Kevin Kerney Novel Unabridged
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 a guest at the ranch, Clifford Spalding, is found dead. Confronted by a determined cop unwilling to let him off the hook, Kerney decides to conduct his own investigation. As he digs into the victim’s background, he learns that Spalding’s ex-wife refuses to believe that her son, a soldier killed in Vietnam some thirty years ago, is dead.
Kerney digs deeper and soon finds himself sharing the woman’s doubts: Did Spalding’s current wife, a much younger woman, orchestrate his murder with the help of a lover? Did a California cop collude with Spalding to keep his ex-wife from learning the truth about her son?
Slow Kill races from West Coast to East Coast as Kerney attempts to find the answers to a thirty-year-old mystery and extricate himself from a situation that could ruin his career.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Slow Plot
Michael McGarrity is a retired policeman, like his alter ego, Kevin Kerney. You get the idea that the character is closely based on the writer, right down to the double initials in their names (M.M. and K.K.). Kerney has graduated in the series to the point that he’s the police chief of Santa Fe, New Mexico, but since there are so few murders there, for this to be a murder mystery, McGarrity has to have Kerney go to California, shopping for horses, and stumble on a dead body.
The victim turns out to be a wealthy socialite, and at first the local authorities suspect Kerney of being involved, and investigate him. Once that dries up, the investigation turns towards the guys wife, an attractive younger woman who has a wandering eye. As the book moves slowly along, the killer becomes apparent rather early and easily.
There’s a second plot in the later part of the book, involving Kerney’s wife (an Army officer) and her investigation of alleged cover-ups involving Army personnel involved in sexual assault cases, some including actual rapes. This plot thread doesn’t finish at the end of the book, leaving us to wonder if he’s going to continue it in the next entry in the series.
I enjoyed this book, but only to a certain extent. This is by far the slowest of the Kevin Kerney novels, with virtually no suspense and no real mystery. The author has a good command of characters and dialog, and some of the interchanges between Kerney and the other characters were fun, but the plot is very slow and predictable. I definitely think that you’d be better off starting this series out with one of his other books.
2 Stars A Disappointing Entry
I have read McGarrity’s other Kevin Kerney mysteries, so I was looking forward to this one. The book has McGarrity’s easy-going style that brings in a lot of the New Mexico atmosphere. That style was the strongest thing about the book. The plot (you can get summaries of the plot in other reviews) is convoluted. That is not necessarily a bad thing in a mystery novel. But it is a horrendous thing in a novel that seemed to be operating under limited space requirements, as if the author were under pressure to keep the book under 280 pages (it’s 278 pages in hardback). The ending was rushed. Not all of the loose ends got tied up, at least not to the satisfaction of this reader. Perhaps McGarrity will revisit some of these plot elements in a later work. But the result was a book not up to the level of the rest of the series.
5 Stars Who woulda’ suspected?
In the ninth novel in the Kevin Kerney series, Michael McGarrity stretches his writing ability along with the patience and stamina of his protagonist. Kevin Kerney, one of America’s favorite cops, is a suspect in a homicide and the investigator who has Kerney in her sights is not one to let go easily. But is it even a homicide? There are no marks on the body, no obvious signs of a struggle, but the deceased didn’t just die all by himself, did he? Then, there is that younger wife to consider. Could she and Kerney have conspired to kill the aging husband for his money and his land? Would Kerney’s wife be happy about the whole thing? And what is all this about a secondary mystery that goes all the way back to the Vietnam War? McGarrity weaves a dense and devious plot, but the path of discovery is well worth the time it takes.
5 Stars Joining Reality’s Black & White to the Reds, Golds, & Grays of Genius
Riding along with a Santa Fe police chief pursuing a luxury personal agenda of acquiring a few horses, gave an intriguingly relaxed pace for a crime novel start up. But, this is not, in any way, a typical crime novel.
I had been resistant to reading this book because the title and cover style had convinced me it was a hard-core crime novel, the type which grabs and chains a reader with shock, gore, speed, terror & pain. The detective usually has no personal life beyond detecting, except maybe succumbing to a femme fatale’s wiles once in a while, with mutual lust well used and excused.
Reading the book’s promo blurbs and the Amazon reviews, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this McGarrity guy had been a Santa Fe deputy sheriff writing from professional history, which is a plus in my book (as well as in many others, as reviews indicate). I appreciate “realism” backed up with on-the-ground-footprints, which is usually not hyped-up; no need for that phony push of deep, dark, action-packed edges imagined by an overcompensating author who exclusively plays observation sports.
One of the Amazon reviews mentioned that Kevin Kerney’s long distance wife and child play solid roles in his novels. “Okay, great,” I thought, “There’s the personal life interweaving I require to warm into the sometimes too chilly pages of crime novels.
Didn’t take more than a few pages to get glued to the plot and begin liking the heck out of this Santa Fe police chief. This guy Kerney has a warmth I can’t explain by analyzing the author’s technique. The personality glow and appeal is just there.
When disgusted with someone’s scattering pompous ashes, people will sometimes spit, “Get real.” Kerney does, without trying.
The story’s the same way. It has a warmth, and some kind of reader’s glue which I haven’t been able to satisfactorily analyze to isolate its cause from something the author’s doing right. The glue isn’t the super type usually used to force a reader to race-pace through pages at one sitting. The hold on the reader is an easy, pleasant one, which had me reading at a quiet, soothing pace, and returning to the book sooner rather than later.
Not even a quarter of the way into the book I knew I’d be reading more in this series, purely for my own entertainment, rather than for any less appealing reason like wanting to appreciate a fantastic writing technique, a literary presence, or a clearly well-done plotting accomplishment, which has me drooling in admiration as I read; yet, for whatever reason, I pick up the book later rather than sooner for each reading session, and have to apply myself to get back in.
For me, one of life’s grander pleasures is to find a novel (and a series is soooo fantastic to glom onto) which pulls me to it more often than I have time to read, with a smile on my face, with anticipation of what’s going to happen next. Sometimes I think it’s the writer’s unique personality matched to a practiced writing technique, which gives this incessant magnetic pull of a reader to a book in progress.
I have this theory that mesmerizing books are written mostly from a Right Brain focus, whatever their pacing, from super-slow-sensual to heart-attack-warning, lightning-rushes. If my theory is accurate, speed and shock aren’t the truest, most effective activators of intense interest; the activation is that the writer is tapping into the chaos of ultimate creation as he’s composing.
But, enough of the esoteric effects of storytelling on its author and audience.
The way Kearney follows leads in his investigative process is so naturally logical it defies definition, won’t submit to a precise description of technique. He often moves ahead on one of those intuitively logical threads even as his Left Brain warns that the effort might prove to be a “wild goose chase.” This guy is S M O O O T H.
I realize that one of the captures of this particular plot is likely not present in other McGarrity offerings, that of a police chief with a flawless, hard-earned reputation on his home ground being suspected of a crime which occurs outside his jurisdiction when he’s off duty on a personal pursuit. (Note that this is also a police chief who could write the most effective “how to” for using supervisory techniques which get his staff to work very willingly, and to work together.)
Loved this statement (need to check it for quote being exact; wrote it from memory):
>> I don’t mind her shining her badge. I just don’t like her doing it by tarnishing my reputation. <<
This guy is always right on target, on base, on center, yet he’s soooo appealingly S U B T L E about it.
Loved the way Kerney allowed himself to fall into a successful, spontaneous interview with an employee, as the chief arrived at a delivery gate, paused at the barrier to the victim’s quite elaborately expensive residential property.
This guy has low key honed to the ultimate; he gets in before anyone knows who he is, or that he’s been welcomed into the other person’s space as an intimate friend.
Love the way McGarrity shows Kearney detailing his changing environment and temporary bases, providing crisp responses to the lack (or luster), enabling himself to shift within the setting, as a grounding point for exploration and expansion of plot machinations.
This novel was recommended to me by Alice Baldrey-Kelley, a bookstore owner in Montrose Colorado, SAGEBRUSH BOOKS. I’d like to thank her for the recommendation, though I wasn’t initially convinced beyond my personal preference against grittier types of “cold” mysteries. I decided to explore the draws for readers of this series, realizing that, on my own, I might not have gotten beyond the title, which proved to be interestingly misleading, but perfectly descriptive of the crime in unanticipateded ways.
I’ve admitted to a fleeting concern about books set in Kearney’s home base appealing to me as actively as his vulnerability of having to defend himself in a place where he has no established friendships and his reputation from “elsewhere” is suspect. However, since I believe it’s McGarrity’s background, personality, and writing techniques which are at cause for this series to have whatever popular draw it does, I’m holding great hopes to be as enthralled by his other books.
McGarrity uses his police background very well in this novel, and in many ways beyond the obvious.
Having “been there, done that” doesn’t guarantee that the veteran will be able to translate that background into an engrossing novel. In fact, having too much knowledge can hamper the creative flow of a born storyteller, an artist who achieves a writing stride most often by a Right Brain, non verbal processes. Reporting from experience requires a focused, controlled Left Brain process (the Right Brain is usually chained in a dungeon so as to avoid the tarnish of tangents, the un-manageability of unbridled, unplanned inspiration).
McGarrity appears to have no problem using the heck out of both sides of his honed brain, achieving a naturally shifting balance of blazing intuition and crisp reason, which shows in the interviewing, investigating, and personal living skills of Kerney and his people. In fact this easy brain balance shows through all of the skills a true novelist applies. It shows in flowing, realistic dialogue; in laying out various types of scenes and sidetracks; in dramatizing the amount of paperwork and process involved in reality police-work; in describing setting and environment with the abandon and abundance of a more literary type novelist; in developing and driving characters the reader never thinks of as characters-in-a-novel. I particularly like the way McGarrity dramatizes the decision making processes of his characters, exposing the fluky, brilliant, stream-of-consciousness, split-second-choices which can solidify an irreversible fork-in-the-road, leading to goal success, or dead-ending in a forever lost cause.
There’s a lot at stake in a stake-out. No steak intended.
My two favorite scenes involved Joe Valdez, in which a cultural graciousness was exposed so beautifully I’d like to gilt-frame each of those scenes, with the caption, “Here we see how honorable and honored people relate to each other.” History of a neighborhood and family endures when it uses change without rushing or losing time. A stone wall is not a stone wall unless it’s built right.
The ending scenes, in stride with McGarrity’s backed-up, smooth style of a storyteller who’s “been there,” did not slide into an ungrounded author’s insecurity, overcompensating as mentioned above. The scenes fit like a treasured glove collection, snugly seated within the ambiance of the rest of the novel, though Chief Kerney might shoot me for mentioning gloves, given his condition at the end of the story. Curious? Get the details. Read the book.
McGarrity has an unusual but highly successful blend of the necessary dryness of a true scribe accurately documenting the daily routine, living reality of police procedure in investigation; and the surging spark of genius in a born storyteller constantly cajoling readers into his tale.
I see why he has so many. Readers. That he does. (Have.) Hungry and willing, readers.
“You have the right to remain silent…”
That I have. Not. Done. Who could, with Kerney asking the questions?
Linda G. Shelnutt
2 Stars Slow Kill
McGarrity has disappointed the reader in his last two books, this one especially. The plot and storylines have not been up to par with his previous books, which I enjoyed immensely. His ending in Slow Kill does not wrap up the loose ends and appears hurried. His ending in his last book also seemed “hurried”.
infidelity warning signs
Drop by his office with an elaborate meal when he says he is working late. She gets easily bored or provoked. As I said it is easier to find out if your partner is cheating than it is to handle the consequences of this devastating truth. You do need to find out the truth you owe it to yourself.
If your wife is cheating you may probably find extra mileage on her car something she has either a vague explanation for or none at all. Normally you should be thankful. Pay attention to weekends this is the time when the adultery is most rampant.
You can also find out address and other personal information. Show him you do. He will not remember all his lies and will insinuate you misunderstood the records would stand you good when you confront him. First check her phone records you can also check the cell phone bills.
Anonymous gifts Another way infidelity warning signs unveil themselves is by the way of anonymous gifts.She begins to give more attention to her looks. It may either be two things shes trying to fight off guilt or shes trying to find an excuse to leave. All of a sudden she doesnt mind if you go out more or engage in harmless flirting with other women.
The victim would then ask the cheater who it was when he or she walks in the home. See if you can get hold of a suspicious number that has been called and received over and over again. If you suspect your wife is not being faithful she may undergo certain changes in her behavior.
Married couples inform each other of longer trips they may make on their own. First of all I am sorry it is a devastating heartbreaking thing that you have to go through. Some of these includeThere is a decrease in her intimacy level with you. You could ask a close friend to help or you could use professional services.
Here are some ways to catch your wife cheating By Visiting Her At Work If your wife all of a sudden works a lot of over time and sometimes even has to go in on Saturday drop her a visit. Cheating partners usually show infidelity warning signs.
A Smart Mans Guide to Cheating on His Wife
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A Smart Mans Guide to Cheating on His Wife
A Smart Man’s Guide to Cheating on His Wife is a psychological and practical tour of infidelity, from thought, through action, to success or failure. It lays out the formula for long term successful philandering and requires the reader to accept his character in the project, as well as in society and his marriage.
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She finds everything you do annoying.If your wife has been cheating on you for some time she has probably developed a different circle of friends involving her lover.
If you suspect your wife is not being faithful she may undergo certain changes in her behavior. For the others however cheating comes into play.More infidelity warning signs can be found here or on the link below. Write down everything he says dates times etc.
They are also more inclined to go for a sustained relationship than a fling. This is a tricky sign of cheating however.However if this is combined with other changes in her behavior it could be a warning sign especially if shes extra careful about the way she looks if shes only going someplace casual.
Normally you should be thankful.Husbands and wives have an emotional connection and in a healthy happy marriage wives prefer to confide catch cheating wife with their husbands. The cheater would then feed lies to the victim to get the victim to believe the cheater.
There are many infidelity warning signs out there that the victim should watch for when he or she suspects a cheater. But if there are unexplained absences where shes suddenly difficult or impossible to reach and giving only vague responses it may be a sign shes spending time with another person. This is a sign that your wife is cheating on you especially if she did not like your absence too much in the past.
If your wife is cheating you may probably find extra mileage on her car something she has either a vague explanation for or none at all. First of all I am sorry it is a devastating heartbreaking thing that you have to go through. For example another man or woman could be dropping off or be dropped off by the cheater.How do you find the truthBe prepared for a long and arduous journey.
Show him you do. If she starts cheating shell find fault in a lot of things. The cheater would of course say it was just a friend. Never never silence your gut feeling. The majority of people are intuitive and you will know just about the same time that things have changed even if there is nothing to put a finger on.
Married couples inform each other of longer trips they may make on their own.This hike in her usual mileage coincides with her absences. Be discrete so she does not notice you.Collect your evidence and before you confront him and be emotionally prepared for the outcome. When youre out with her you run into friends she never told you about.
The Scandal Plan Or How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife
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