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Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy)

Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy)

by Adrian Mc Kinty (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

    $20.11
Synopsis

EDGAR AWARD SHORTLISTED * SPINETINGLER AWARD WINNER * NED KELLY AWARD WINNER * STEEL DAGGER AWARD SHORTLISTED 'McKinty's Troubles-set tales of sarky Belfast cop Sean Duffy are becoming one of the great crime series ... Brilliant!' - THE SUN 'It blew my doors off' - IAN RANKIN It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy. Riot duty. Heartbreak. Cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked room mysteries in one career? When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. But there are just a few things that bother Duffy enough to keep the case file open. Which is how he finds out that she was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond. His investigation leads Duffy to Helsinki, following the Finnish businessmen Lucy Bigelow had an interest in. And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide? BOOK 5 IN THE DETECTIVE SEAN DUFFY SERIES

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 24 Dec 2015
ISBN 10: 1781254559
ISBN 13: 9781781254554
Book Overview: A death in a historic castle, locked up overnight. It almost looks like a suicide, but then Sean Duffy pulls on a few little threads, and the whole Establishment could come undone ...

Media Reviews
Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy thrillers set in 1980s Belfast come thick and fast, but the quality remains constant ... The tension between McKinty's competing love of tight, formal puzzles and loose, riffing dialogue is what makes the Duffy novels such a joy ... enormous fun. The last chapters suggest Duffy may be on the verge of becoming a responsible adult. I hope not. -- John O'Connell * Guardian *
Someone who always delivers: Adrian McKinty ... he's very good at taking the story in a direction you don't see coming -- Val McDermid
Thoroughly engaging crime novels... In Rain Dogs, McKinty has had the brilliant idea of challenging Duffy with a locked-room mystery straight out of the golden age of detective fiction ... This is a classic plot with modern twists, but it is Duffy's character - sexist and self-aware by turns - that powers the book to its inevitable conclusion. -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times *
McKinty's current exile from his native Carrickfergus has not dampened the heat and immediacy of his tales which are set in the sectarian-ridden Northern Ireland of the 1980s ... Rain Dogs is further proof that time and geographical distance are valuable aids for an author excavating the dark matter of the Troubles. -- Anthony J Quinn * Irish News *
Full of humour and good set pieces ... the [plot] revelations are satisfying, I liked the character of Duffy -- Anthony Thuillier * RTE Radio 1 Arena *
Adrian McKinty is on a roll ... Rain Dogs, does not disappoint. The dark humour, the verbal jests, and the seamless insertion of real historical figures and events into the fictional narrative are all superbly sustained ... The detail in this historical reconstruction is delicious ...This is clever historical crime with the bite of social commentary and the joy of a crime series at its zenith. -- Sue Turnbull * Sydney Morning Herald *
Praise for the Sean Duffy series: 'Fast-paced, intricate and crime to the core. * Guardian *
McKinty's Troubles-set tales of sarky Belfast cop Sean Duffy are becoming one of the great crime series ... Brilliant * The Sun *
A treat and an education -- Val McDermid
Fluent and fast paced * Sunday Times *
Creeps up on you and explodes * Daily Mail *
An exciting new voice -- Ian Rankin
Gun Street Girl revels in the farce that was the past to deliver a stellar crime novel for the present. Simply outstanding. * Sydney Morning Herald *
This is a first-rate crime thriller that commands attention from the opening pages and keeps the reader interested until the end * Sydney Morning Herald *
The release of a new Sean Duffy novel by Adrian McKinty is always one of the highlights of a crime reader's year * Sydney Morning Herald *
Despite the dark subject matter, Rain Dogs makes for a breezy, blackly humorous read ... The most enjoyable aspect of the novel is McKinty's unsentimental prose, a stark style that employs a terse, brutal poetry to evoke startling imagery ... All told, it's a deliciously readable tale. -- Declan Burke * Irish Examiner *
Author Bio
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He studied law at Warwick and politics and philosophy at Oxford before emigrating to New York in 1993. In 2008, he emigrated again, this time to Melbourne, Australia with his wife and kids. Adrian's first crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was picked as the best debut crime novel of 2004 by the American Library Association. The first of the books in the Sean Duffy series, The Cold Cold Ground, won the 2013 Spinetingler Award and was picked as one of the best crime novels of the year by The Times; the second, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, won the 2014 Barry Award, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award and was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The third, In the Morning I'll Be Gone, won the 2014 Ned Kelly award and was picked as one of the top 5 crime novels of the year by The Mail on Sunday. The fourth, Gun Street Girl, was shortlisted for the 2015 Ned Kelly Award, the 2016 Edgar Award, the 2016 Audie Award, the 2016 Anthony Award and was picked as one of the best crime novels of the year by The Boston Globe and The Irish Times. His latest Sean Duffy book, Rain Dogs, has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Ned Kelly Award.