Adrian McKinty
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Adrian McKinty was born in Northern Ireland. He read politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is a crime fiction novelist, blogger and book reviewer. His novels include the Sean Duffy series and the Lighthouse Trilogy. He made the Ned Kelly 2015 shortlists in the category of Best afficher plus Novel with his title Gun Street Girl. He won the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best paperback original with his novel, Rain Dogs. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (2011) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1968-06-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Northern Ireland
- Pays (pour la carte)
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Denver, Colorado, USA
Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Harlem, New York, USA - Études
- University of Warwick
University of Oxford - Professions
- novelist
- Courte biographie
- Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University before moving to New York in the mid 1990s His first novel Dead I Well May Be (loosely based on his experiences as an illegal immigrant in the US) was published in 2003. In 2012 after moving to Australia with his wife and children he began publication of the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series. In 2019 after giving up writing Adrian had a global hit with his standalone novel The Chain. Adrian's books have won the Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award (3 times), The Anthony Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.
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Rain Dogs: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel par Adrian McKinty
Sean Duffy #5. Only one more left for me to read (I read the first and the most recent the first week). Sean's woman troubles continue but his admin problems with the police have eased up a bit. There are still people who hate his very existence but they don't figure so prominently this time. Nice balance there. My ongoing concern is Sean's Beemer and how much abuse it takes. I didn't note the car in the most recent book. I might need to re-read. Again Adrian McKinty weaves current events into the story to good effect. Book #6 is on order from the library and I will be sad when I have finished them all.… (plus d'informations)
I've long been a fan of Adrian Mckinty but it wasn't aware until recently that the author who wrote the Dean Duffy series was the same as the one who penned The Island. The man can flat out right, and deserves to be considered among Lehane, Rankin, and Bruen, as a top talent in the crime fiction genre, or any genre for that matter.
The Detective Up Late is the latest in the Duffy series. In the very early nineties Duffy is set to retire and move to Scotland with his wife and daughter. Unfortunately there is one last case that needs to be wrapped up before the move can be completed, the disappearance of a young Tinker girl.
Duffy vows that the case will receive the same priority as if she were an upper class lady, and doggedly pursues the case to the end, even as others urge him to let it go.
The book is a good read, and delivers all the goods one would expect from a writer of McKinty's skill.… (plus d'informations)
The Detective Up Late is the latest in the Duffy series. In the very early nineties Duffy is set to retire and move to Scotland with his wife and daughter. Unfortunately there is one last case that needs to be wrapped up before the move can be completed, the disappearance of a young Tinker girl.
Duffy vows that the case will receive the same priority as if she were an upper class lady, and doggedly pursues the case to the end, even as others urge him to let it go.
The book is a good read, and delivers all the goods one would expect from a writer of McKinty's skill.… (plus d'informations)
Sean Duffy is in his last days of full-time employment with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. After several years as a detective, Duffy plans to work as a reserve 7 days per month until becoming eligible for a full pension. But first, he has one more case to solve: the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl, with evidence that raises the possibility of murder.
Duffy and his team begin in the usual way: interviewing the girl’s family and people who saw her the night she disappeared. Due to a holiday, a few days have passed and the trail is not easy to follow. Lucky for Duffy and team, some critical evidence is discovered by locals and they are soon interviewing suspects. But the path from suspects to arrest is a winding one, as is determining what actually happened to the girl. And as is often the case in these novels, connections emerge which add international intrigue to a “simple” missing persons case.
The novel ends with a tidy conclusion, which would be an acceptable way to wrap up the series. But I’ve heard Adrian McKinty may not be finished with Duffy yet, and that would be perfectly fine with me.… (plus d'informations)
Duffy and his team begin in the usual way: interviewing the girl’s family and people who saw her the night she disappeared. Due to a holiday, a few days have passed and the trail is not easy to follow. Lucky for Duffy and team, some critical evidence is discovered by locals and they are soon interviewing suspects. But the path from suspects to arrest is a winding one, as is determining what actually happened to the girl. And as is often the case in these novels, connections emerge which add international intrigue to a “simple” missing persons case.
The novel ends with a tidy conclusion, which would be an acceptable way to wrap up the series. But I’ve heard Adrian McKinty may not be finished with Duffy yet, and that would be perfectly fine with me.… (plus d'informations)
Sean Duffy 4 somehow seems more real than the others, and this is on top of my earlier reviews that talk about how real these novels seem.
It's 1985 and Sean has been reinstated as a Detective Inspector and McCrabben is now the lead murder investigator. A husband and wife are murdered. Their son has vanished but later turns up dead of suicide. Open and shut, right? Well, of course not or there wouldn't be a book. The investigation takes us up the north coast (I had no idea that you can see Scotland from Northern Ireland) and then over to Oxford. McKinty again has repurposed real events in service of the novel. I found it all quite enjoyable.… (plus d'informations)
It's 1985 and Sean has been reinstated as a Detective Inspector and McCrabben is now the lead murder investigator. A husband and wife are murdered. Their son has vanished but later turns up dead of suicide. Open and shut, right? Well, of course not or there wouldn't be a book. The investigation takes us up the north coast (I had no idea that you can see Scotland from Northern Ireland) and then over to Oxford. McKinty again has repurposed real events in service of the novel. I found it all quite enjoyable.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 28
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 6,393
- Popularité
- #3,853
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 452
- ISBN
- 421
- Langues
- 18
- Favoris
- 23
