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Rain Dogs

Detective Sean Duffy, Book 5

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Edgar Award winner, Best Paperback Original, 2017.

Rain Dogs, a stunning installment in the Sean Duffy thriller series, following the Edgar Award-nominated Gun Street Girl, is "another standout in a superior series" (Booklist).

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?

©2016 Adrian McKinty (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Detective Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Private Investigators Crime United Kingdom Funny Heartfelt Scary Witty Crime Mystery

Critic reviews

"McKinty expertly balances Duffy's tense and suspenseful investigation with the political tensions of the region." ( Publishers Review)
"McKinty manages a second locked-room success...another standout in a superior series, combining terrific plotting with evocative historical detail." ( Booklist)
"The tension between McKinty's competing love of tight, formal puzzles and loose, riffing dialogue is what makes the Duffy novels such a tremendous joy." ( The Guardian)
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Enjoyed this new installment in the Duffy series. Great performance again and interesting plot twists.

Another good one

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What a clever story. Loved it and did guess part of the story but not what the Norwegian did.

Duffy, Duffy, Duffy

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enjoyable read, interesting interweave with recent news stories, would look for more in the series

enjoyable read

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I've been binge listening the entirely improbable adventures of Sean Duffy, as he fights his way through the Northern Irish troubles and encounters many of the famous personalities and events if the 1980s. I know how unlikely it is that one person should have had so many close calls with history, but that hasn't slowed me down for a minute. I'm straight on to vol 6 now.

A Binge Listener

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Another multi layered page turner well performed ( excusing the terrible scouse accent attempts) .

Duffy back on form

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