Slow Kill
Book 9 of Kevin Kerney
California Fiction General Horse breeders Horse breeders - Crimes against Horses Horses - Breeding Investigation Kerney; Kevin (Fictitious character) Murder Mystery & Detective Mystery Fiction Police - New Mexico - Santa Fe Police Procedural Police chiefs Political Ranchers Ranchers - Crimes against
Publisher: Onyx
Published: Aug 1, 2005
Description:
SUMMARY:
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 victims background, he learns that Spaldings 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 womans doubts: Did Spaldings 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.