Job jumping suited me and I was able to do it by having a decent education and fairly solid professional skills.” My sweetie (his artist wife Emily Beth 'Mimi' with whom he has a son and two grandchildren) always used to say that I was never looking for one career and a fade off into oblivion. I always sort of wanted to do a lot of things. He traces the beginning of his writing career to “a short story course at the University of New Mexico. It was a pretty easy course for a good grade. McGarrity, 75, has a lot of personal source material to draw upon after successful careers in law enforcement, social work and education.
That was the genesis, and as the backstory with Kevin Kerney evolved, I began to feel a need to do a prequel,” he said.
“In 1996, I opened my crime novel series with ‘Tularosa,’ an investigation of the murder of a young soldier, the godson of my protagonist, who was born in the Tularosa Basin. McGarrity lived in Las Cruces in the 1950s and ‘60s and shares vivid memories of the era in his books.
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