Hermit's Peak

Kevin Kerney Mysteries, Book 4

De: Michael McGarrity

Narrado por: George Guidall

Hermit’s Peak is a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroes—while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest.

When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, inherits an unexpected windfall of 6,400 acres of high-county land, the last thing he wants to think about is work. But while visiting his new property, he comes across an ailing stray dog that leads him to the butchered bones of a murder victim near the rugged mountain of Hermit's Peak.

After assigning the case to his subordinates, Kerney returns to Santa Fe to spend time with a woman he cares about, Sara Brannon, a career army officer who is visiting him on holiday. But his time with Sara must wait, as he is called back to Hermit's Peak when another body is found at a remote cabin. Now, Kerney must unearth the shattering truth about his new land and follow a twisting trail of blood through the majestic landscape of the American Southwest.

©1999 Michael McGarrity (P)2023 Recorded Books

Another Awesome Novel

I love the characters and how they are developed. There’s lots of suspense. I like the narrator.

Compelling characters

Another great story in the Kevin Kerney series. George Guidall gives another wonderful performance as the narrator.

Great book bad sound Quality

The book is great but the sound quality is terrible. This is the only book so far with such bad sound quality.

Good but not great

The Kevin Kerney series is as evocative of the sense of New Mexico as the Walt Longmire series is of Wyoming or the Leaphorn/Chee series is of Navajo country. The stories could not be told as well in any other setting. McGarrity obviously knows the area and its people and presents them in an enjoyable way.

Kerney is an excellent protagonist, with both flaws and virtues that are important to the stories told.

Unfortunately, this is a weaker entry in this book series than previous books, with two rather slight and largely unrelated stories intertwined, neither of which has the depth or emotional impact of previous books.

This is a solid police procedural, but not exemplary. It's entertaining, and will not stop me from reading further books by McGarrity, but it's only good, not great.

narrator

george needs to retire. it's increasing difficult to understand his slurring and bubbling narration..story is great. anything he reads today 2024 I don't buy. just to hard to understand. the authors need to move away from him.
He has been a amazing part of audible books for people like me who can't read anymore in the past, but time to hang it up.

George is losing it.

George G. has been always been one of my fav narrators, but he’s gone downhill on this one. Lack of enunciation on words, muffled and the usual abundance of saliva (which before was more tolerable). I’m guessing the story was solid but I couldn’t get through it. Maybe it’s time to find another performer or perhaps Sir George was sick. Bummer either way.