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Now serving part-time as a Carrickfergus RUC reservist until he gets his pension, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy thinks he has solved his last case. But when the lead Carrickfergus detective is away on holiday, the Chief urgently calls upon Duffy to investigate a homicide in one of Belfast’s wealthiest neighborhoods.
At first, the murder seems straightforward: a carjacking of a jaguar by teenage joyriders gone wrong, resulting in the death of the owner, a solitary, middle-aged painter. Unexpectedly, Duffy is plunged into one of the most challenging cases of his career. With no forensic evidence, no eyewitnesses, and an ID-less victim, who may be connected to an IRA warlord, Duffy has his work cut out for him.
Determined now to solve the murder and discover the victim’s true identity, Duffy enters a tangled web of shady art forgers, surly skinheads, and tight-lipped Dublin suit-makers, and soon finds himself neck-deep in a case that grows more dangerous as the pieces of the solution begin to fall into place.
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“McKinty continues to astound me…[His] novels are, in my mind, already elevated to canonical status…McKinty takes the time-tested conventions of the mystery genre and builds a narrative utterly unique and compelling over them…In short, McKinty has learned from the masters, and in my opinion, now is one.”
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Mystery People, praise for the author
About Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. His father was a welder in Harland and Wolff—the shipyard where they built the Titanic; his mother was a school lunch lady and secretary. Adrian went to Oxford University on a full scholarship where he studied philosophy.
Emigrating first to America and then Australia he found work as a door-to-door salesman, a driver, a bookstore clerk, a barman, a high school English teacher, and a semipro rugby player.
His debut crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the 2004 Dagger Award and was optioned by Universal Pictures. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels that have been translated into over forty languages. He has won the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award.
His 2020 novel The Chain was a New York Times bestseller and appeared on twenty-five best-of-the-year lists. His 2022 novel The Island was an instant New York Times bestseller and made five best-of-the-year lists including those of the London Times and the New York Times.
Adrian is a member of the Linnean Society and the National Audubon Society. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.