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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—from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty. “McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the scene in years.” —Tana French 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.
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Summary
Summary
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Winner of the Spinetingler Award for Best Crime Novel
Longlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award
A Kirkus Reviews Pick of Recommended Audiobooks
Selected for the November 2012 Indie Next List
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—from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty.
“McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the scene in years.” —Tana French
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.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Reviews
Reviews
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What a ride
- This book is a non stop thriller from start to finish and I just couldn't stop listening once I started , I think anyone who reads this will have the same experience. The performance is second to none highly recommended !
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Great Story
- I just wish there was more cotinuing stories of Dectective Duffy
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Meet Detective Sean Duffy of Belfast
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For a cop (or “peeler”) in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, the regular challenges of policing are just the beginning. It’s the height of The Troubles, and Detective Sean Duffy is living and working in what verges on a war zone. Bobby Sands and the other IRA hunger strikers are having their day, paramilitary groups on both sides of the Protestant-Catholic divide are on a hair trigger for violence in the streets, and Duffy tries to remember to check his car for bombs every time he gets in it. Enriching the potential for mayhem is the fact that Duffy is a Catholic on a Protestant-majority police force, in a place and time where your religious upbringing ensures your being singled out — by somebody, sometime — as a target.
So death is just a part of the everyday routine in Belfast, and what might stand out as a headline-grabbing murder in another city is simply further fruit of the violence all around. But when a pair of bodies turn up bearing what looks like the signature of a serial killer, that gets Duffy’s and his mates on the squad’s attention. Following this lead takes Duffy down a path he never dreamed of, uncovering darkness to surprise even a hardened Ulsterman.
Whether you remember The Troubles well, or it’s a part of history that you don’t know much about, Adrian McKinty draws you into Sean Duffy’s world and delivers a top-notch crime drama in a setting well removed from the run-of-the-mill cop story. Gerard Doyle does a capital job telling the story in the lilting Irish cadence that is his birthright, with a clarity and sense of pacing that pulls the reader around every turn. So give it a listen already! You may find yourself, like this reviewer, panting for Books 2 and 3 of The Troubles Trilogy.
Author
Author Bio: Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. His father was a welder in Harland and Wolff—the shipyard where they built the Titanic; his mother was a school lunch lady and secretary. Adrian went to Oxford University on a full scholarship where he studied philosophy.
Emigrating first to America and then Australia he found work as a door-to-door salesman, a driver, a bookstore clerk, a barman, a high school English teacher, and a semipro rugby player.
His debut crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the 2004 Dagger Award and was optioned by Universal Pictures. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels that have been translated into over forty languages. He has won the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award.
His 2020 novel The Chain was a New York Times bestseller and appeared on twenty-five best-of-the-year lists. His 2022 novel The Island was an instant New York Times bestseller and made five best-of-the-year lists including those of the London Times and the New York Times.
Adrian is a member of the Linnean Society and the National Audubon Society. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Details
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD, MP3 CD, Hardcover, Paperback |
| Category: | Fiction/Mystery & Detective |
| Runtime: | 10.07 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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