Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case. Including risking his life.
Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He now
lives in 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. The first book in the Sean
Duffy series, The Cold Cold Ground, won the 2013 Spinetingler
Award; the second, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, won the 2014
Barry Award and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. The third,
In the Morning I'll Be Gone, won the 2014 Ned Kelly award. The
fourth, Gun Street Girl, was shortlisted for the 2015 Ned Kelly
Award, the 2016 Edgar Award, the 2016 Audie Award and the 2016
Anthony Award. Rain Dogs won the 2017 Edgar Award and was
shortlisted for the 2016 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the
2016 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the
2016 Ned Kelly Award, the 2017 Barry Award and the 2017 Anthony
Award for Best Paperback Original.
A razor sharp thriller told with style, courage and dark-as-night
wit ... a brilliant novel with its own unique voice
*STUART NEVILLE, AUTHOR OF THE TWELVE*
The Cold Cold Ground is fast-paced, intricate and crime to the
core.
*Guardian*
If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold
Ground is what he would have written
*Times*
The Cold Cold Ground is a razor sharp thriller set against the
backdrop of a country in chaos, told with style, courage and
dark-as-night wit. Adrian McKinty channels Dennis Lehane, David
Peace and Joseph Wambaugh to create a brilliant novel with its own
unique voice
*Stuart Neville*
The names of David Peace and Ellroy are evoked too often in
relation to young crime writers, but McKinty shares their method of
using the past as a template for the present. The Cold Cold Ground
is a crime novel, fast-paced, intricate and genre to the core.
*Guardian*
Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure
*Irish Independent*
Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure...
McKinty has not lost his touch or his eye for the bizarre and the
macabre, or his ear for the Belfast accent and argot. ...McKinty
creates a marvellous sense of time and place... he manages to catch
the brooding atmosphere of the 1980s and to tell a ripping yarn at
the same time... There will be many readers waiting for the next
adventure of the dashing and intrepid Sergeant Duffy.
*Irish Independent*
It's undoubtedly McKinty's finest . . . Written with intelligence,
insight and wit, McKinty exposes the cancer of corruption at all
levels of society at that time. Sean Duffy is a compelling
detective, the evocation of 19802 Northern Ireland is breathtaking
and the atmosphere authentically menacing. A brilliant piece of
work which does for NI what Peace's Red Riding Quartet did for
Yorkshire
*Brian McGilloway*
McKinty's prose is a master-class in vicious poise . . . Be in no
doubt that this novel is a masterpiece: had David Peace, Eoin
McNamee and Brian Moore sat down, they would have been very pleased
indeed to have written The Cold Cold Ground
*Declan Burke*
The Cold Cold Ground is a fearless trip into Northern Ireland in
the 1980s: riots, hunger strikes, murders - yet Adrian McKinty
tells a very personal story of an ordinary cop trying to hunt down
a serial killer'
*John McFetridge*
McKinty's The Cold Cold Ground has got onto on my five best books
of the year list as it is riveting, brilliant and just about the
best book yet on Northern Ireland
*Ken Bruen*
Adrian McKinty is the voice of the new Northern Irish generation
but he's not afraid to examine the past. This writer is a legend in
the making and The Cold, Cold Ground is the latest proof of
this
*Gerard Brennan*
Adrian McKinty may have struck gold with Sean Duffy
*The Sun*
Highly readable.
*Evening Standard*
A stylish page-turner of a thriller that will keep you gripped
until the end.
*We Love This Book*
"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*
In this time capsule of a mystery novel, McKinty, with great skill and authenticity, transports readers to the Northern Ireland of 1981, at the height of the "troubles," when Bobby Sands and other IRA hunger-strikers are inflaming an already violent and unstable Belfast. DS Sean Duffy is a maverick on several levels, including being a Catholic in the largely Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary in the town of Carrick-fergus, near Belfast. Duffy is trying to solve the murders of two gay men, one of whom turns out to be the head of the IRA's internal security force. Gerard Doyle reads with an Irish accent that sounds impeccable, lending added authenticity to dialog and language. The Cold Cold Ground is reported to be the first book of a "Troubles" trilogy, so look for these great characters and this engrossing setting to continue through at least two more books. verdict Not to be missed. ["For fans of Stewart Neville's crime novels, a new and harrowing Irish trilogy is under way. At turns violent and labyrinthine, McKinty's fine police procedural is also the ultimate page-turner," read the review of the Seventh Street: Prometheus hc, LJ 11/1/12.-Ed.]-Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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