Sean Duffy · Book 5

Rain Dogs

by Adrian McKinty

Published
8 March 2016
Pages
347
ISBN-13
9781781254554
Type
novel

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Cover of Rain Dogs

About this book

Number 5 in the Sean Duffy series, Rain Dogs was released on March 8, 2016, running 347 pages. Like the earlier books, it's built around a genuinely twisty impossible-crime mystery, with the political violence of the Troubles escalating steadily around Duffy from one novel to the next.

Its place in Sean Duffy

Rain Dogs is book 5 in the Sean Duffy series. It follows Gun Street Girl. It is followed by Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly. 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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