Police at the Station and They Dont ..., Adrian McKinty
Police at the Station and They Dont ..., Adrian McKinty
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Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
A Detective Sean Duffy Novel

Author: Adrian McKinty

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/07/2017


Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty, this thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy was a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.

About Adrian McKinty

How does one graduate from prestigious Oxford University and end up with such a mixture of odd jobs. Such was the life of Irish born author, Adrian McKinty. He was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1968 as number four of five children. His father was a welder and boilermaker, but then became a merchant seaman. Adrian grew up reading crime novels and science fiction.

McKinty moved to New York City after receiving his Oxford degree, where he lived in Harlem. This is where the Oxford graduate took jobs as bartender, security guard, bookstore clerk, rugby coach, door to door salesman, and librarian for the Columbia University Medical School Library. After that, Adrian moved to Denver, Colorado where he was a high school English teacher. During this phase of his career, he began writing fiction with his first novel being, Dead I Well May Be. It received great recognition from peer review publishers. The next award winning novel was the sequel to his first entitled, The Dead Yard.

McKinty and his wife moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2008 with their children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on May 19, 2024

The sixth novel in Adrian McKinty's excellent series featuring Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy of the Belfast, Northern Ireland police force is set in 1988. It begins with an ominous prologue in which three masked gunman march Duffy deep into the woods, hand him a shovel, and order him to begin diggin......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on December 03, 2019

4.5★ “If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.” I’ve just discovered this is the last......more

Goodreads review by Truman32 on January 05, 2018

Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly is the 6th book in Adrian McKinty’s Detective Sean Duffy series but the first one I have read. (What? You’re not my Dad, you can’t tell me how to read a mystery series…I can start at the end if I want!) The Boston Globe rated it as one of the 2017’s......more


Quotes

“Another absolute cracker of a book in a superior series.” Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author

“There is plenty of action and excitement as we get to observe the normally flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants detective grappling intentionally with his future. Superb.” Boston Globe

“Another mordantly witty mystery novel from the reliably excellent Adrian McKinty.” Irish Times

“‘Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly’ is a line from a song by Tom Waits, and it perfectly sums up the paranoid atmosphere at Carrickfergus CID in the late 1980s… McKinty moves seamlessly between action and reflection, and his sardonic tone is a delight.” Sunday Times (London)

“Gerard Doyle has become the voice of the Duffy books…Listeners should not be surprised that his Irish and British accents are perfect but he is also excellent with the French. There are some pretty gruesome scenes here but the story is gripping and…new listeners will want to seek out the earlier audios.” SoundCommentary

“Narrator Gerard Doyle has provided the voice of Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy since the first audiobook of the series. Returning for book six, he’s more in tune with Duffy’s complexity than ever before…McKinty’s blend of dark drama with perfectly timed humor and intensely plotted action is performed by Doyle as though he’s intimately familiar with Duffy’s mind, heart, and body. Listeners comprehend the vastness of Duffy’s emotion without a caricatured delivery. Doyle delivers another winning narration. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile

“This is familiar territory for Doyle, and he knows exactly how to navigate the material. From the tense opening scene, he keeps the story moving at a steady pace, expertly building the suspense…Bolstered by excellent characterizations, Doyle’s reading holds the listener transfixed.” Publishers Weekly (audio review)

"[This book] is perhaps the best Sean Duffy of the lot in the wit of its dialogue, its inwardness, its exciting story and—essentially—in having a complex and memorably flawed hero in Inspector Sean Duffy.” Weekend Australian

“McKinty has created a Chandleresque character who walks the mean streets of Belfast…Driving it all is McKinty’s compelling literary style.” Booklist (starred review)

“McKinty’s hero is irreverent, charming, and mordantly, laugh-out-loud funny, and his eclectic personal soundtrack and bitter, pragmatic politics make for vivid period detail.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


Awards

  • AudioFile Earphones Award
  • Ned Kelly Award
  • Literary Hub Pick
  • Boston Globe Best Books of the Year
  • CrimeReads Pick