TULAROSA (audiobook) (Kevin Kerney #1) by Michael McGarrity

 



Published by Recorded Books in 2012.
Read by George Guidall.
Duration: 8 hours, 16 minutes.
Unabridged.

Tularosa features Kevin Kerney, a retired police detective living in New Mexico.

His former partner has come to him with a plea for help. His former partner's son (Kerney's godson) has gone AWOL from White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico. He had been a model soldier up to the time of his disappearance with clear plans to attend art school once he left Army career. 

Here's the difficulty. It wasn't Kerney's choice to retire - he was at the top of his game when he was shot twice in the line of duty in his gut and his knee. This happened because his partner and best friend was out of place -- drinking. 

It has been three years. It took Kerney a long time to physically and mentally rehabilitate and he never forgave his former partner for letting him get hurt.

Kerney is not asked to forgive his former partner, but to put aside his dislike to go and find his godson.

Kerney agrees and finds a whole lot more than he expected...

I really enjoyed veteran audiobook reader George Guidall's reading of the book - he is a classic narrator who set a high standard for all that followed. He has read more tham 1,200 audiobooks and did a good job with this one.

Well, he did as good job as one could with this book. The first half of the book was very good, but somewhere near the halfway point McGarrity started splitting the point of view that the story was told from more and more often (it had primarily been told from Kerney's point of view in the first part of the book) and it takes a lot of the steam out of the story. The mystery is removed from a story and then the book simply becomes a question of HOW the bad guy gets caught by the good guy and not IF the good guys can work out the mystery. It's too bad because McGarrity has one very good surprise twist in the middle that I did not see coming but he doesn't keep up with it.

I rate this audiobook 3 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: TULAROSA by Michael McGarrity.

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