Gun Street Girl: Sean Duffy 4 (Detective Sean Duffy 4) - Softcover

Adrian McKinty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846689821 ISBN 13: 9781846689826

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2015

Synopsis

Belfast ,1985. Gunrunners on the borders, riots in the cities, The Power of Love on the radio. A wealthy couple are shot dead while watching TV. Their son jumps to his death, leaving a note claiming responsibility. But Detective Inspector Sean Duffy knows something doesn t add up, and people keep dying. Soon Duffy is on the trail of a mystery that will pit him against shadowy US national forces, and take him into the white-hot heart of the biggest political scandal of the decade. An exciting new voice Ian Rankin.

About this title

About the Author

Adrian McKinty was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Oxford University. His novel Dead I Well May Be was short-listed for the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Its sequel, The Dead Yard, was selected as one of the twelve best novels of the year by Publishers Weekly, and Blackstone Audio's production won the 2007 Audie Award for Best Thriller/Suspense.

Review

''This is McKinty's fourth Duffy outing, following the Troubles trilogy that began with The Cold Cold Ground in 2012. Like the earlier tales, it mixes a mordant wit and casual, unpredictable violence that vividly portrays a turbulent time when Duffy, as a matter of routine, checks under his car for bombs. After a dozen novels, McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history that sometimes seems forgotten. Fans of gritty Northern Irish crime writers such as Stuart Neville, Declan Hughes, and Brian McGilloway will enjoy this talented author.'' --Library Journal (starred review)

''Royal Ulster Constabulary Inspector Sean Duffy returns in this follow-up to the Troubles trilogy. After a series of career-limiting turns, Duffy is struggling to find a path for himself where he'll make any kind of difference...As usual, there's plenty of 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 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1846689821
• ISBN 13: 9781846689826
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336