Sean Duffy · Book 6

Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly

by Adrian McKinty

Published
6 July 2017
Pages
337
ISBN-13
9781094081038
Type
novel

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Cover of Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly

About this book

Published on July 6, 2017, Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly is the sixth book in the Sean Duffy series, running 337 pages. It closed out the original run of six novels covering 1981-1984 -- McKinty then paused the series for six years before returning with The Detective Up Late in 2023.

Its place in Sean Duffy

Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly is book 6 in the Sean Duffy series. It follows Rain Dogs. It is followed by The Detective Up Late. See the full Sean Duffy reading order.

Sean Duffy is a Catholic detective in the overwhelmingly Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, working murder cases in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, during the worst years of the Troubles -- a position that makes him a target from both sides before he's even opened a case file. Adrian McKinty, who grew up in Carrickfergus himself, uses Duffy's beat to walk readers through the paranoia and dark comedy of daily life under bomb checks, checkpoints, and sectarian murder: he mirrors his car for booby traps every…

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