The Sean Duffy Series - Book 5
Rain Dogs
“McKinty’s story opens with a visit to Belfast by ‘sporting royalty’ Muhammad Ali—a challenge narrator Gerard Doyle meets with a gravelly, rhythmic delivery. Even better are Doyle’s varied Irish accents, which help differentiate the various Northern Irish policemen who work with Detective Sean Duffy…Duffy’s journey to Finland to investigate poses an interesting vocal challenge that Doyle handles admirably. His delivery further ratchets up the tension when the threat of IRA bombings and the death of a high-ranking police official add to the mayhem.”
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Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
Finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
A Booklist Editors’ Choice of the Year
A Boston Globe Pick of the Best Books of the Year
Finalist for the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
Finalist for the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original
Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?
When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep the case file open, which is how he finds out that Bigelow was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond.
And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: Who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?
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