Gun Street Girl
- Author Adrian McKinty
- Narrator Gerard Doyle
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 3 March 2015
- Run Time 9 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
A mysterious suicide and double murder are at the heart of this powerful thriller set in Northern Ireland amidst the Troubles, from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty
“McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history…” —Library Journal (starred review)
Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout 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, which 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.
Critics Review
u201cGerard Doyle gives a stunning narrationu2026that makes listeners forget heu2019s even there. From the subtle changes in dialect to McKintyu2019s distinct writing cadence and dark humor, Doyle hones in on the details that make this procedural a joy to listen to. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.u201d
u201cI had been saddened at the thought that this series had ended. Imagine my delight; McKinty has now written a fourth booku2026Read all four. They are phenomenal.u201d
u201cA 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.u201d
u201cMixes a mordant wit and casual, unpredictable violence that vividly portrays a turbulent timeu2026McKinty 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.u201d
u201cThereu2019s plenty of entertaining territorial battling between the dizzying array of law-enforcement agencies acting in Belfast, and Duffyu2019s investigative skills seem somehow sharpened by his lost hope.u201d
u201cGun Street Girl is great; Iu2019m so glad that Adrian McKinty has ngiven readers another novel starring Belfast cop Sean Duffy, whose nearlier exploits were described in the terrific Troubles trilogy. Donu2019t nmiss any of the four.u201d
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