Sean Duffy · Book 1
The Cold Cold Ground
- Published
- 3 January 2012
- Pages
- 355
- ISBN-13
- 9781094061337
- Type
- novel
About this book
The first book in the Sean Duffy series, The Cold Cold Ground was released on January 3, 2012. It is the longest book in the series at 355 pages. It was written by Adrian McKinty.
Its place in Sean Duffy
The Cold Cold Ground is book 1 in the Sean Duffy series. It is followed by I Hear the Sirens in the Street. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781094061337