Gun Street Girl: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel, by Adrian McKinty
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Belfast, 1985, amidst the “Troubles”: Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where a cabinet minister’s daughter died of a heroin overdose. This may or may not have something to do with Kelly’s subsequent death. New evidence leads elsewhere: gun runners, arms dealers, the British government, and a rogue American agent with a fake identity. Duffy thinks he’s getting somewhere when agents from MI5 show up at his doorstep and try to recruit him, thus taking him off the investigation.Duffy is in it up to his neck, doggedly pursuing a case that may finally prove his undoing.
Gun Street Girl: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel, by Adrian McKinty- Amazon Sales Rank: #95620 in Books
- Brand: McKinty, Adrian
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.17" h x .82" w x 5.49" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 313 pages
Review Shortlisted for the 2016 Edgar Award, the 2016 Anthony Award, the 2015 Ned Kelly Award and the 2016 Audie Award. McKinty's Sean Duffy, policing the mean streets of 1985 Northern Ireland, tackles gun runners, arms dealers, MI5, and a mysterious double murder -- or is it a triple? -- in the fourth installment of this terrific series.- The Boston Globe McKinty's observation of people and place is astute and very funny. His prose, at times telegraphic, at times lyrical, demands to be read out loud, preferably in a Carrickfergus accent....Gun Street Girl revels in the farce that was the past to deliver a stellar crime novel for the present. Simply outstanding.- The Sydney Morning Herald Duffy is more introspective here, and while the Troubles trilogy featured strong characterization, series fans will appreciate the further insight into the fallout from tragic cases, department politics, and war. As usual, there's plenty of funny and entertaining territorial battling between the dizzying array of law-enforcement agencies acting in Belfast, and Duffy's investigative skills seem somehow sharpened by his lost hope.-- Booklist (*starred* review) Gun Street Girl is yet another superb satire of its time and place.- The Irish Times Gun Street Girl is great; I'm so glad that Adrian McKinty has given readers another novel starring Belfast cop Sean Duffy, whose earlier exploits were described in the terrific Troubles trilogy. Don't miss any of the four...." --NANCY PEARL, NPR commentator and bestselling author of Book LustNamed one of the Best Books of 2015 by the Boston Globe! A 2016 Audie Award finalist for Best Mystery!“When it comes to Northern Irish crime fiction, Adrian McKinty forged the path the rest of us follow. The Sean Duffy series is the culmination of a career spent examining our darkest moments, and McKinty is the only crime writer who can do justice to our singular history.” —STUART NEVILLE, author of The Final Silence“Gun Street Girl is great; I'm so glad that Adrian McKinty has given readers another novel starring Belfast cop Sean Duffy, whose earlier exploits were described in the terrific Troubles trilogy. Don't miss any of the four….” —NANCY PEARL, NPR commentator and bestselling author of Book Lust“Series fans will appreciate the further insight into the fallout from tragic cases, department politics, and war. As usual, there’s plenty of entertaining territorial battling between the dizzying array of law-enforcement agencies acting in Belfast, and Duffy’s investigative skills seem somehow sharpened by his lost hope.”—BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW “The latest Sean Duffy mystery brings back the cop who stars in these dark, intriguing, but still somehow witty novels. His latest is a thrilling, thoroughly fantastic murder mystery with countless twists and turns that take readers to the darkest parts of Belfast and some huge cover-ups within the Irish and British governments.”—RT BOOK REVIEWS (FOUR STARS – Compelling)“Mixes a mordant wit and casual, unpredictable violence that vividly portrays a turbulent time…. McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history that sometimes seems forgotten. Fans of gritty Northern Irish crime writers such as Stuart Neville, Declan Hughes, and Brian McGilloway will enjoy this talented author.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL STARRED REVIEW “A grim, gritty but ever-captivating yarn.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS “I had been saddened at the thought that this series had ended. Imagine my delight; McKinty has now written a fourth book…. Read all four. They are phenomenal.”—THE SUN HERALD, MississippiPraise for previous Detective Sean Duffy novels:"McKinty's novels are...shot through with a smart, crackling humor that manages to be both dark and witty.... Each book is a solid standalone, but it's even better to ride the entire trilogy roller coaster." —BOSTON GLOBE"Exceptionally smart police procedurals. . . with [a] gritty, violent Belfast backdrop." —BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW “A dark-humored shamus in the Phillip Marlowe tradition, [Sean Duffy] is . . . buoyed through the murderous chaos by his love of classical, punk, and new-wave music, the Greek philosopher Epicurus, and frothy pints of Guinness.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL"I Hear the Sirens in the Street blew my bloody doors off!" —IAN RANKIN, author of the Inspector Rebus novels"Sean Duffy is a compelling detective, the evocation of the period is breathtaking and the atmosphere authentically menacing." —BRIAN McGILLOWAY, New York Times-bestselling author
About the Author Adrian McKinty is the author of sixteen novels, including The Cold Cold Ground, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, and In the Morning I’ll Be Gone, the first three Detective Sean Duffy novels, and, most recently, The Sun Is God. Born and raised in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, McKinty was called “the best of the new generation of Irish crime novelists” in the Glasgow Herald.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Detection amidst the riots, bombs and burnings of The Troubles By Patto Detective inspector Sean Duffy is used to getting petrol bombs and grenades thrown at him. He checks under his car every day for mercury tilt bombs. He's thirty-five and looks every minute of his age due to stress, ciggies, booze and cocaine.Nonetheless he's a good cop, best in the force, and known for solving cases. In this book he has to solve a double murder, which looks like an open-and-shut case, but Duffy's not so sure. The complexities of this case turn out to be above his pay grade, but that doesn't stop Duffy.Duffy is a very fun character, good at ridiculing professional incompetence and telling off deserving people. He's also compassionate. It upsets him when people die. And he's a gifted talker. He can talk his way out of difficulties of all sorts.He's not too lucky with women. His encounters at a church social for singles are hilarious.Adrian McKinty is a admirable writer. Even the most profane bits of dialog are finely written. In this book he tells a story that's both very funny and very sad. The characters feel like real people and include clever personable cops, conniving cops, idiotic bosses, and two strong women.This is the second book I've read by McKinty, and I'm finding him consistently excellent.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Somebody knows the Troubles he's seen By enubrius Okay, here's the thing. This is a crime novel about "The Troubles" and, if you're looking for something unique in the plotting, well, you're gonna have to keep looking.As with most stories taking on this time and place, the usual things happen. And mostly to the usual people.Duggery is skulled; Trays are bet-ed.Some of the wrong people die and some of the right people don't.Conversely, some of the right, do and some of the wrong go on (probably, in many cases, to re-appear in another episode of this series)So, why the 4 stars?Because, as expected as the plotting is, the writing is something else entirely.Not a page goes by without at least one extra-ordinarily felicitous turn of phrase; some, totally unexpected sentence formation.And all PERFECTLY understandable and readable.By which I mean, it's easy for a writer to be "unique". All he/she has to do is write so opaquely as to be unreadable (If I have to go back and re-read a sentence/paragraph more than three times, I generally don't continue to read many of those sentences/paragraphs).But to be clear, concise, entertaining, funny, sad, and profound, and STILL sound like the most enchanting raconteur you've encountered in ages, that takes style, that takes uniqueness, that takes... McKinty (I think I'm in love.... in only the nicest, most platonic way, of course)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Book Four of the Duffy Series Shows No Drop-Off By Dana King It’s a paradox of the author-reader relationship that some writers can so often—and so well—please a reader as to create a higher bar for themselves. The reader will still buy everything the author produces, but his standards for enjoyment may be higher than for a less-appreciated writer. I confess to being like that with Dennis Lehane. Live By Night got reviews about as good as The Given Day, but, to me, the fact it was even a notch below was a disappointment.Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series has entered that same rarified air. My expectations for Gun Street Girl, based on the previous Duffy books, were as high as for any book I’ve read in the past year. The difference is, there was not a jot of disappointment in Gun Street Girl; McKinty met even my inflated expectations.The Duffy series has entered a realm where it is difficult to know which events are integrated historical facts, and which are purely fictional; he’s the Irish James Ellroy, with a less brutal style. Duffy isn’t a traditional here, nor is he bent the way so many of Ellroy’s characters are. He’s also not an anti-hero. He’s a man in a difficult, possibly untenable position: a Catholic cop in Protestant Northern Ireland during the peak of the Troubles. Scorned by many for being Catholic, he’s a member of what may be the most universally reviled organization in Northern Ireland: the Royal Ulster Constabulary. His fellow Catholics consider him a traitor because he’s a cop, and many of his peers on the police force—on whom he depends to have his back—distrust him because he’s Catholic. Now MI5 is recruiting him to work with informants, a prospect against even Sean recoils. He’s a cop, and cops depend on informants, but he’s also Irish, with a distaste for those who would inform on their peers as a violation of the Irish First Commandment: Whatever you say, say nothing.As before, the case Duffy must solve is formidable enough, but it serves mostly as a frame on which to hang a description of everyday existence during the Troubles, as Duffy must navigate a barren personal life along with the workaday accommodations required of a member of the RUC, such as never starting the car without checking for bombs. His work is unfulfilling on many levels, but it’s all he has. Duffy is not defeated—he still hopes for more—never really expects it. He has his own code, his own compromises and sacrifices he’s willing to make, understanding more as time goes on his true loyalty must be to those who have come to accept him and will protect him with the same vigor he extends for them.I’ve read all four of the Duffy novels, in sequence. It’s hard to say which is my favorite. The Cold, Cold Ground had the greatest impact on me, through its introduction to such a foreign world, but that could well have been the case no matter where I began; they’re all that good. Starting from the beginning does allow one to see Duffy’s life and attitude evolve as events take their toll, but he’s a fascinating character no matter where you pick him up. So pick him up. You’ll be fascinated and educated all at once.I have heard it said those who read fiction have a more highly developed sense of empathy for having viewed so many of life’s trials through the eyes of others. Never has this been truer than when viewing life as Sean Duffy sees it.
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