Sean Duffy

The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

12 September, 2023

It’s been nearly 12 years since we reviewed The Cold Cold Ground, the first novel in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series. For reasons that baffle us, books like Rain Dogs, Gun Street Girl and I Hear the Sirens in the Street have been successful with…

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Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly

By Philip Rafferty

30 December, 2016

Written by Adrian McKinty — Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly is the sixth book in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series. It opens with RUC detective Duffy being led at gunpoint deep into the woods by a small group of thugs. His life cooly flashes before…

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Rain Dogs

By crimefictionlover

10 April, 2016

Adrian McKinty has been playing with the history of Northern Ireland, and the rest of the UK, throughout the Sean Duffy series. From the hunger strikes in the Maze in 1981 through to the Brighton bombing… and now the depraved activities of Jimmy Savile drift…

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Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty

By crimefictionlover

27 January, 2016

Let’s start with the title. Like the rest of the books in the Sean Duffy series, it’s taken from a Tom Waits song. I’m not sure there’s a Tom Waits vibe to the books, but the author likes it like that so who am I…

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First look: Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty

By crimefictionlover

22 November, 2015

There aren’t many trilogies around made up of five books, but it seems that Serpent’s Tail couldn’t get enough of Adrian McKinty‘s Sean Duffy series. After extending it to four books with Gun Street Girl last year, a fifth is on its way. Feast your…

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Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 June, 2015

Narrated by Gerard Doyle — One of the reasons I looked forward to listening to the audio version of this excellent police procedural was having heard Gerard Doyle’s version of Adrian McKinty’s first Sean Duffy book, The Cold Cold Ground. Like that earlier book, Gun…

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Meet Adrian McKinty

By crimefictionlover

21 February, 2015

The Northern Irish author Adrian McKinty has written three crime trilogies. The latest – his Sean Duffy series – has been so good it turned from a trilogy into a quartet of books. And it might continue still. We’ve reviewed all four of them here…

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Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinley

By crimefictionlover

25 January, 2015

Originally, Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series was meant to be a trilogy, so the appearance of Gun Street Girl is great news for fans. It’s the fourth book set in 1980s Belfast and featuring the Catholic detective who’s reached the rank of Detective Inspector in the…

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The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

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Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty

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Meet Adrian McKinty

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