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The Detective Up Late

The Sean Duffy Series, Book 7

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The Detective Up Late

By: Adrian McKinty
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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“Adrian McKinty is a gifted storyteller I love to read, and Sean Duffy is a character you will never forget.”Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author

From New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty comes the next thrilling mystery in the Edgar Award-winning Sean Duffy detective series

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn’t be higher.

After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention. A fifteen-year-old traveler girl has disappeared and no one seems to give a damn about it. Duffy begins to dig and uncovers a disturbing underground of men who seem to know her very well. The deeper he digs the more sinister it all gets. Is finding out the truth worth it if DI Duffy is going to get himself and his colleagues killed? Can he survive one last case before getting himself and his family out over the water?

©2023 Adrian McKinty (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
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Excellent - such a joy to listen to a really well crafted story, superb characters and greatly enhanced by great narrator.

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I love the characters who exist in Sean's world....Taking me away from this world Wrapping around my head. Adrian Mckinty is Smart as Cats...

Mckinty Genius

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The wait for this one has been interminable and then I banked it a few months and listened while here in Carrickfergus. I don't understand why we had to wait so long when extracts have been circulating for ages. Anyway it is wonderful, and the Sean Duffy series is head and shoulders above The Chain & The Island. In fact it's hard to believe it's the same author. Book 8 looks to be available in German and hopefully the English language version won't take quite so long. I love these characters and Gerard Doyle's narration is first class.

Fantastic

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This review applies equally to the entire detective Sean Duffy series. I don't think I have read/listened to a more enjoyable collection of detective novels. Adrian McKinty has achieved something quite remarkable in writing a series of detective novels which capture their period and place so believably; where the fantastic and the authentic elements sit so comfortably: that are full of humour without being comedic; and where the hero is not just three dimensional but four, as they mature over the decades covered by the series. Bravo Mr McKinty. Oh, and bravo to the excellent reader.

Deeply satisfying

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Great story very interesting as are all the books great narration, love all of these books finished the lot

all of it

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