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Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy)

Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy)

by Adrian Mc Kinty (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

'McKinty is one of Britain's great contemporary crime writers and the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece.' IAN RANKIN BOOK 5 IN THE DETECTIVE SEAN DUFFY SERIES SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD SPINETINGLER AWARD WINNER NED KELLY AWARD WINNER STEEL DAGGER AWARD SHORTLISTED WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD 2017 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. And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 07 Apr 2016
ISBN 10: 1781254575
ISBN 13: 9781781254578
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
Praise for the Sean Duffy series: 'Fast-paced, intricate and crime to the core * Guardian *
A treat and an education -- Val McDermid
Creeps up on you and explodes * Daily Mail *
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 *
McKinty's Troubles-set tales of sarky Belfast cop Sean Duffy are becoming one of the great crime series ... Brilliant * The Sun *
Fluent and fast paced * Sunday Times *
An exciting new voice -- Ian Rankin
McKinty on great and very funny form -- Simon Copeland * The Sun *
Adrian McKinty returns with a further instalment of his wonderful Sean Duffy series, fast becoming a favourite of crime fiction aficionados worldwide. Now living in Melbourne, Northern Ireland-born McKinty writes tough and hard in balanced and weighty prose. His flair for language is matched by that seriously cool feel for characters who reject conformity * The Australian *
Novels with this kind of muscular vigour are rare and only McKinty brings Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Savile and a new band called U2 to the mix in a way that makes perfect sense and is murder mystery perfection * Australian Women's Weekly *
Adrian McKinty is one of the great storytellers writing crime fiction today. -- Don Winslow
When it comes to Northern Irish crime fiction, Adrian McKinty forged the path the rest of us follow. -- Stuart Neville
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; the second, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award and 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 best 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 2016 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Ned Kelly Award.