LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
Terse, pacey with fantastic sequences of dialogue. Any fan of James Ellroy or even Raymond Chandler should read the opening extract - you will find it hard not to want to carry on.
1981 Northern Ireland and Catholic Sean Duffy has just been promoted to Detective Sergeant and finds himself with two grisly, complex, but seemingly unrelated murders to sort out.
You can tell the author is writing about a place and time he knows intimately with his evocative and lyrical descriptions of Northern Ireland during the dark days of the troubles. The 12th crime novel from Adrian McKinty and the first in a series of police procedurals with DS Sean Duffy - we look forward to getting the next one in the office.
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The Cold Cold Ground Synopsis
Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things--and people--aren't always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It's no easy job--especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. Add to this the fact that, as a Catholic policeman, it doesn't matter which side he's on, because nobody trusts him, and Sergeant Duffy really is in a no-win situation. Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles--and of a cop treading a thin, thin line.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781094080987 |
| Publication date: |
9th July 2019 |
| Author: |
Adrian McKinty |
| Publisher: |
Blackstone Publishing |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
320 pages |
| Series: |
Sean Duffy |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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Press Reviews
Adrian McKinty Press Reviews
'If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written'
(Peter Millar, Times)
'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.
(Eoin McNamee, Guardian)
'Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure
(Irish Independent)
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About Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied law, politics and philosophy at university. He moved to New York City in the early nineties where he worked in bars, bookstores and building sites. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia and writes a popular blog on film, music, politics and literature at adrianmckinty.blogspot.com and tweets @adrianmckinty.
McKinty is best known for his series of Sean Duffy thrillers. The first, The Cold Cold Ground, was published in 2012 and won the 2013 Spinetingler Award and its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street has been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Awards 2013, 2014 Le Prix SNCF du Polar, the Barry Awards 2014 and longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2014.
Maxim Jakubowski's view on Adrian McKinty...
The stylish Irish author who now lives in Australia but was for many years in America has followed his DEAD trilogy with FIFTY GRAND, a powerful revenge novel set in Cuba and Colorado, with a female Havana cop on the rampage in a mission to avenge her dead father. Staccato prose, poetic landscapes and an unforgettable heroine all conspire to make this one of the big crime novels of the past year. A must.
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