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Rain Dogs A Detective Sean Duffy Novel Adrian McKinty Seventh Street Books – paperback, Kindle, audible Now that I have suckered you into this review with a question, I’m going to give you something of a cop-out answer: Rain Dogs is the best Sean Duffy detective story I have read…since the last Sean Duffy detective … Continue reading “Rain Dogs” – Adrian McKinty’s best Sean Duffy murder mystery? #bookreview
Gun Street Girl A Detective Sean Duffy Novel Adrian McKinty Seventh Street Books – paperback, Kindle At first glance, “Gun Street Girl” seems like the title for a cheap, unpromising paperback potboiler. But the good news is, it’s actually Adrian McKinty’s latest Detective Sean Duffy mystery. Readers literally begged McKinty to keep Duffy alive after … Continue reading GUN STREET GIRL: Detective Sean Duffy is back in action, by popular demand! – #mystery #fiction #bookreview
The Sun is God Adrian McKinty Seventh Street Books – Kindle, paperback Take a weird but true exotic setting. Throw in some real people and real murders. Add to the mix a fictional investigator: Will Prior, an ex-military police lieutenant who deliberately got himself cashiered from the British army during the Boer War following … Continue reading The Sun is God – Adrian McKinty takes readers well off the beaten path with this new historical mystery – #bookreview
In the Morning I’ll Be Gone Book Three: The Troubles Trilogy Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books, paperback) I wish I had discovered The Troubles Trilogy and Detective Sean Duffy much sooner than Book Three. I really don’t like reading trilogies in reverse. But Adrian McKinty is an amazingly good crime novelist. And now that I have … Continue reading The Troubles Trilogy: Adrian McKinty’s Northern Ireland crime novels are powerful, engrossing reading – #bookreview