Gun Street Girl: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - Softcover

McKinty, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633880001 ISBN 13: 9781633880009

Publisher: Seventh Street Books, 2015

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Anthony, Ned Kelly, and EdgarŽ Awards! 

Belfast, 1985, amidst the “Troubles”:  Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where a cabinet minister’s daughter died of a heroin overdose.  This may or may not have something to do with Kelly’s subsequent death. 

New evidence leads elsewhere: gun runners, arms dealers, the British government, and a rogue American agent with a fake identity. Duffy thinks he’s getting somewhere when agents from MI5 show up at his doorstep and try to recruit him, thus taking him off the investigation.

Duffy is in it up to his neck, doggedly pursuing a case that may finally prove his undoing.

About this title

From the Author

Adrian McKinty is the author of eighteen novels, including the acclaimed Detective Sean Duffy novels. Rain Dogs won the 2017 EdgarŽ Award for Best Paperback Original. Gun Street Girl was shortlisted for the Anthony, Ned Kelly, and EdgarŽ Awards. The Cold Cold Ground won the Spinetingler Award. I Hear the Sirens in the Street won the Barry Award and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. In the Morning I'll Be Gone won the Ned Kelly Award and was selected by the American Library Association as one of the top-10 crime fiction novels of 2014. McKinty is also the author of the standalone historical The Sun Is God. Born and raised in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, McKinty was called "the best of the new generation of Irish crime novelists" in the Glasgow Herald.

Review

Shortlisted for the 2016 Edgar Award, the 2016 Anthony Award, the 2015 Ned Kelly Award and the 2016 Audie Award. McKinty's Sean Duffy, policing the mean streets of 1985 Northern Ireland, tackles gun runners, arms dealers, MI5, and a mysterious double murder -- or is it a triple? -- in the fourth installment of this terrific series.- The Boston Globe McKinty's observation of people and place is astute and very funny. His prose, at times telegraphic, at times lyrical, demands to be read out loud, preferably in a Carrickfergus accent....Gun Street Girl revels in the farce that was the past to deliver a stellar crime novel for the present. Simply outstanding.- The Sydney Morning Herald Duffy is more introspective here, and while the Troubles trilogy featured strong characterization, series fans will appreciate the further insight into the fallout from tragic cases, department politics, and war. As usual, there's plenty of funny and entertaining territorial battling between the dizzying array of law-enforcement agencies acting in Belfast, and Duffy's investigative skills seem somehow sharpened by his lost hope.-- Booklist (*starred* review) Gun Street Girl is yet another superb satire of its time and place.- The Irish Times Gun Street Girl is great; I'm so glad that Adrian McKinty has given readers another novel starring Belfast cop Sean Duffy, whose earlier exploits were described in the terrific Troubles trilogy. Don't miss any of the four...." --NANCY PEARL, NPR commentator and bestselling author of Book Lust

About this edition

• Publisher: Seventh Street Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1633880001
• ISBN 13: 9781633880009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 313