The Detective Up Late

Its place in Sean Duffy

The Detective Up Late is book 7 in the Sean Duffy series. It follows Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly. It is followed by Hang on St. Christopher. 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…