Adrian McKinty. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (340p) ISBN 978-1-61614-716-7
This series starter from McKinty (Fifty Grand) introduces hard-boiled but likable Det. Sgt. Sean Duffy, a Catholic who remains brashly, winningly sardonic even under the pressure of 1981 Belfast's overwhelmingly Protestant police force. With the...
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Adrian McKinty, read by Gerard Doyle. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-5046-8765-2
Doyle returns as narrator for McKinty’s sixth Sean Duffy novel. It’s 1988, and Det. Sean Duffy is a Catholic policeman serving in Northern Ireland during the unstable time of The Troubles. He’s seen a lot during his career, but the murder by...
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Adrian McKinty. Seventh Street, $15.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-63388-259-1
Set in 1988 in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, Edgar-finalist McKinty’s riveting sixth Sean Duffy novel (after 2016’s Rain Dogs) pits the detective inspector against some of his toughest foes yet. Francis Deauville, a known heroin dealer, is found...
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Adrian McKinty. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 paper (315p) ISBN 978-1-63388-130-3
Det. Insp. Sean Duffy must solve the equivalent of a locked-room mystery in McKinty’s scorching fifth installment in his Troubles-set Northern Irish crime series (after 2015’s Gun Street Girl). It’s 1987 in Carrickfergus, and Duffy, a member of the...
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Adrian McKinty. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-63388-000-9
Fans of Ned Kelly Award–winner McKinty’s Troubles trilogy (The Cold Cold Ground, etc.) will welcome this fourth outing for Sean Duffy, a Catholic detective for the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, in 1985 Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland....
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Adrian McKinty. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paperback (230p) ISBN 978-1-61614-068-7
Based on an actual 1906 incident on New Guinea’s isolated Kabakon Island, this desultory mystery provides a striking contrast to McKinty’s previous book, the taut In the Morning I’ll Be Gone. The small German cult known as the Cocovores live naked...
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Adrian McKinty. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (308p) ISBN 978-1-61614-877-5
The explosive conclusion to McKinty’s Troubles trilogy (after 2013’s I Hear the Sirens in the Street) combines an IRA thriller with a locked-room mystery. By late 1983, Sean Duffy has fallen on hard times. Drummed out of the Royal Ulster...
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Adrian McKinty. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (340p) ISBN 978-1-61614-787-7
Set in 1982, McKinty’s uneven second outing for Belfast Det. Sgt. Sean Duffy shifts focus away from the IRA enforcers of the first installment, 2012’s The Cold Cold Ground, toward Northern Ireland’s Anglo-Protestant elite. While war rages in the...
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Adrian McKinty, Author . Scribner $24 (306p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4699-6
McKinty's second novel is a brutal tale of revenge starring a young illegal immigrant from Ireland who chooses a criminal career in New York over unemployment in Belfast. Arriving in the city in the early 1990s, the antihero Michael Forsythe...
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Adrian McKinty, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-14432-6
""Ulster. Hard. There's too intense a feeling there. Like you're living on a wire."" Like the rest of this sober if promising debut from Northern Irish writer (and now Manhattan resident ) McKinty, this tough sentence reflects bitter realities. In...
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Adrian McKinty, Author . Holt $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8900-4
Irish crime writer McKinty (The Bloomsday Dead
) delivers an intelligent novel of suspense about cultural identity. After a hit-and-run driver kills Alberto Suarez, a Cuban defector who’s been working as a rodent exterminator in Fairview, Colo.
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Adrian McKinty, Author . Scribner $24 (289p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6644-4
McKinty finishes up his knockout trilogy featuring Irish mercenary Michael Forsythe with his most visceral, satisfying effort yet (after 2006's The Dead Yard
). Perennial fugitive Forsythe has drifted to Lima, Peru, where he's grabbed by a...
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Adrian McKinty, Author . Abrams/Amulet $16.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5480-9
McKinty, previously known for adult crime novels, brings an attuned ear for dialogue and a taut pacing to his first YA outing, the launch title in the Lighthouse Trilogy. Thirteen-year-old Jamie O'Neill lost his arm in cancer surgery a year ago,
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Adrian McKinty, Author . Scribner $24 (292p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6643-7
McKinty's literate, expertly crafted third crime novel, the sequel to Dead I Well May Be
(2003), confirms his place as one of his generation's leading talents. Five years after taking down a powerful Irish mobster, Belfast-born mercenary...
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Adrian McKinty, Author . Scribner $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4700-9
Irish author McKinty follows up 2003's acclaimed Dead I May Well Be
with an outstanding and complex crime novel that should appeal to fans of hard-boiled Celtic scribes such as Ken Bruen and Ian Rankin. Alexander Lawson, a down-and-out ex-cop...
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Adrian McKinty, read by Gerard Doyle. Blackstone Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10.5 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-5046-6144-7
McKinty’s new addition to his police procedural series featuring Sean Duffy, a detective in 1980s Belfast, kicks off when a young female journalist is found dead in the locked courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle. While the likable Duffy takes...
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Adrian McKinty, Author, Gerard Doyle, Read by , read by Gerard Doyle. Blackstone Audio $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-6078-5
Blood, bullets and death are served up in ample portions in McKinty’s final entry to his Michael Forsythe trilogy. The past 12 years have found Irish tough Forsythe hiding out in Peru looking over his shoulder in anticipation of being found by
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Adrian McKinty, Author, Gerard Doyle, Read by , read by Gerard Doyle. Blackstone Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-8291-6
Doyle's reading of McKinty's third novel (after Dead I May Well Be
) seems awkward initially. The Irish-brogued narrator reads the text the way a poet would for a public reading: in short spurts, withholding emotion and allowing the words to
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Adrian McKinty. Mulholland, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-53126-9
An original premise, relentless pacing, and strong female characters lift this nail-biter from Edgar winner McKinty (the Sean Duffy series), which takes a no-holds-barred look at how far a parent will go to protect her child. Divorced teacher Rachel
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Adrian McKinty. Little, Brown, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-53128-3
Deliverance meets The Road Warrior in this harrowing survival thriller set in Australia from bestseller McKinty (The Chain). Heather, a 24-year-old Seattle massage therapist, has recently married surgeon Tom Baxter, a widower who’s 20 years her...
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