Sean Duffy Series Lib/E: The Cold Cold Ground Lib/E (Series #1) (CD-Audio)

from asxz

Great detective work in Belfast, 1981. The plot is a bit all over the place but the setting feels authentic and the sectarian tension feels real. I guess McKinty would love to be the Northern Irish Ellroy and that's a perfectly fine ambition. I might pick up the next in the series to see if Duffy...

from pennsylady

9 audio discs Detective Sergeant Duffy...Book 1 Sean Duffy is a Catholic detective in the almost entirely Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary. He discovers what appears to be serial killings. Beyond being a police procedural, the novel does effectively portray social, political and moral issues ...

from ffortsa

My first Sean Duffy mystery, and quite interesting. Setting the character in Northern Ireland in the midst of the Troubles, McKinty allows the news to be a constant background hum during the investigation of a pair of murders. I liked the characters and the police dialogue, and I'll be sure to re...

from quiBee

This book follows a Catholic cop in the Northern Irish police force who discovers what appears to be a serial killer. We follow his investigation, which is interesting, but equally interesting is the backdrop of Northern Ireland in the time of the Hunger Strikes, the mindless prejudice, the Iron ...

from RowingRabbit

This is Belfast in 1981 when the prisoners on hunger strike in The Maze fuelled nightly sectarian clashes between the IRA, UVF & police. Imagine living in a place where plumes of black smoke, burning buses, army check points & military helicopters are parts of daily life. And if you're a cop, our...