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The Judas Judge is the fifth in Michael McGarrity's excellent (IMO) Kevin Kerney series. (Note: I'm a little biased since I like mysteries set in the American southwest, where my dad's family is from...) This series rarely goes on sale, and titles are mostly ridiculously priced for old backlist at $7.99 and up, with several over $10, so it's nice that Judge has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Judas-Judge-K...dp/B000QFBXG4/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-judas-judge

Spoiler:

In a remote New Mexico campground, six people are killed in an apparently senseless murder spree. Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney suspects the slaying wasn’t random at all—but rather a calculated plot to eliminate one high-profile victim, retired judge, Vernon Langsford. In piecing together the judge’s shocking past, Kerney discovers the victim’s predilection for sexual indiscretions, a history of family betrayal and greed, and a dark marriage that ended mysteriously and violently. But as Kerney gets closer to the heart of a terrible crime, it’s a woman from his own past who emerges with a stunning secret of her own.

Note 2: While verifying prices for my little rant above, I noticed that the 12th and most recent, atlhough not super-recent (2008), title in the series, Dead or Alive, has been sitting at $3.99, which is not too bad, for quite a while.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Alive-Ke...dp/B001BAGW0K/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...n-kerney-novel

Spoiler:

“A taut and tidy thriller”(San Diego Union-Tribune) focusing on a manhunt for a deranged killer—from the nationally bestselling author who “gets better and better.”(Tony Hillerman )

Living in London while his wife serves as a military attaché at the American Embassy, recently retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney gets an early morning phone call that changes everything and sends him hurrying home to his New Mexico ranch. Riley Burke, his partner in a horse-training enterprise, has been mowed down on Kerney’s doorstep by an escaped prisoner cutting a murderous swath through New Mexico.

As the killings mount, Kerney teams up with his half-Apache son, Lieutenant Clayton Istee of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department, to hunt for a psychotic murderer with a growing appetite for blood—who has no intention of being taken alive.