"Under The Color of Law"

Michael McGarrity has captured my attention again in "Under The Color of Law" which was an easy, quick read because I didn't want to put it down. Kevin Kearney has just become the police chief of Santa Fe and he has his work cut out for him shaping up a department left in shambles by his predecessor. When an ambassador's estranged wife is found murdered and his team is taken off the case because the FBI and other federal officers move in to solve it, he is skeptical. A quick resolution leads him to the conclusion that this is a cover up but digging deeper could cost him his life as well as his pregnant wife's and officers serving under him. Will Kerney be able to back down and not follow it through to protect those he cares about?

In the meantime, he's not receiving a lot of support from his superiors. As Kerney says on page 84 of the hardback version, "..holding back on the somewhat snide thought that criminals really should be more sensitive to the chamber-of-commerce vision of a picture-perfect retirement and murder of a prominent citizen was unseemly, only served to tarnish the city's image, and caused hand wringing for both the boosters and the local politicians."

I highly recommend this book in the Kevin Kerney series.

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