![]() Things become even more complicated when a young woman, the wife of an IRA hunger striker, is found hung in a forest. With police resources stretched to the limit, Duffy is given the case. When another body is found, it appears a serial killer is on the loose. That’s nothing unusual except it’s got someone else’s right arm, suggesting there’s more than one victim. ![]() In other words, a complete fish out of water.Īs if it’s not bad enough that Duffy has to start every day checking under his car for IRA bombs, the economy is collapsing and civil war seems imminent following the death of Republican hunger striker Bobby Sands.Ī body is found in a burnt out car. ![]() Sean Duffy is a cosmopolitan, well education Catholic cop posted to the fiercely Protestant working class town of Carrickfergus. The Cold Cold Ground is set in the spring of 1981. McKinty will be one of the authors attending and reading from his work, along with Megan Abbott, David Whish Wilson and Leigh Redhead. I’ll be doing a longer review of The Cold Cold Ground in the next issue of Crime Factory. I just wanted to do a short post on it here, partly because it’s such a good book and deserves all the kudos is can garner and partly because it’s another chance for me to spruik the launch of Crime Factory Publications on March 5. McKinty’s books are the kind of crime fiction I love, sharp, well written, combining political analysis with a hard noir edge. I’ve been an Adrian McKinty fan ever since reading Falling Glass last year and was keen as hell to get his latest, The Cold Cold Ground. ![]()
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