Hickey and McGee — Ken Kuhlken

Hickey and McGee is at once an epic love story and a novel of crime, corruption, faith, madness, and extreme courage.
The parts of the story are:
Midheaven, a coming-of-age drama set in and around the exquisite Lake Tahoe basin, told by Jodi McGee as a precocious seventeen-year-old. Disenchanted by her wealthy and jaded peers, she both turns to God and falls for a troubled man.
The Very Least, which begins when a dear friend of Clifford Hickey's cousin Bo crosses the San Diego/Tijuana border on the run from a charge of molesting children in a church nursery. Because Bo believes him innocent, journalist Clifford agrees to investigate. Soon he has made mortal enemies of gangsters, politicians, and tycoons on both sides of the border. That's the bad news. The good news: he meets Jodi, who helps him discover his purpose and write this story.
the Answer to Everything, a novel of suspense and courtroom drama that finds Clifford's brother Alvaro implicated in the murder of a Tijuana drug cartel gunman. The cartel mark the entire Hickey family, and Jodi and her daughter, as objects of their fierce code of revenge.
Readers won't forget Hickey and McGee's unique yet genuine people or the lessons about the trials and power of love expressed through their rich and turbulent lives.

Praise for the Hickey Family Crime Novels

"Ken Kuhlken writes about characters most authors wouldn't touch." Author Raymond Carver

"... brings a great new character -- and a fresh voice -- into the mystery field." Novelist Tony Hillerman

"Kuhlken is an original, and in these days of cookie-cutter fiction, originality is something to be prized." San Diego Union Tribune

"... brings the social and cultural scene of the period vividly to life. " Publisher's Weekly

"... a tale as sensitive and heartfelt as it is action-packed.." Kirkus Reviews

"... takes readers into dark experiences and deep understandings that can't help but leave them changed." Novelist Michael Collins

"... entertains in a grand and thrilling manner. " The Drood Review of Mystery

"Kuhlken weaves a complex plot around a complex man, a weary hero who tries to maintain standards as all around him fall to temptation. " Publisher's Weekly

"A stunning combination of bad guys and angels, of fast-moving action and poignant, heartbreaking encounters." Novelist Wendy Hornsby

"... captures the history and atmosphere of the 1970s as well as the complex dynamics of a fascinating family." Booklist

"... a tale as sensitive and heartfelt as it is action-packed ... Crime, punishment and redemption." Kirkus Reviews

"... fast-moving adventure, effectively combines mainstream historical fiction with the conventions of the hard-boiled detective novel." Booklist

"A wonderful, literate, and very ambitious novel that does everything a good story should do. It surprises, delights, it jolts and makes you think.” Novelist T. Jefferson Parker

“The pace, clarity and assurance of Midheaven make it a pleasure to read.” Novelist Anne Tyler

"Elegant, eloquent, and elegiac, Kuhlken's novels sing an old melody, at the same time haunting and beautiful." Novelist Don Winslow