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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
I feel like I should have liked this better than I did.
hopeful
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Damn, McKinty can write. With a magnificent control of the language, and a gift for plot and character, McKinty completes his "troubles" trilogy as he resurrects Sean Duffy's career and reputation. McKinty uses an actual attempt on Margaret Thatcher's life as the climax to this amazing book. Along with Gene Kerrigan and John Connolly, McKinty is as good as any crime writer out there.
Really enjoying this gritty series set in 1980s Northern Ireland. Real events and characters woven into fiction with a flawed, sympathetic main character who seems to have the world (or at least The Troubles) on his shoulders.
Another excellent entry in this series featuring a Catholic police detective serving the RUC in Northern Ireland. Listened to the audio version which was narrated by Gerard Doyle who is one of my favorites.
This series is addictive and I rate this book 3.5 stars rounded up. Sean Duffy has an unrealistic character trait:he smokes marijuana and hashish regularly. This is book 3 in the series and they are better read in order, although I haven't done that. I am retired law enforcement, and starting in the mid 80s my agency required random drug testing for all uniformed persons. This book is set in 1984, and has Sean reinstated to the Royal Ulster Constabulary to help find Dermot McCann,IRA agent who has escaped from the Maze prison in N. Ireland. The British believe that he is planning something big and want to catch him first.
I read this book in 24 hours. It was a library book. If you can get past his drug use, you will like this police procedural series. I plan to read the rest of the series.
I read this book in 24 hours. It was a library book. If you can get past his drug use, you will like this police procedural series. I plan to read the rest of the series.
If the quality of an author's books determined how commercially successful they were, Adrian McKinty would be out-selling Michael Connelly in the crime fiction genre. But people are fickle and this book currently has about 1/10th the reviews of Connelly's third entry of his Harry Bosch series. So it goes.
In the Morning I'll Be Gone is the third book in the Sean Duffy series, which follows Detective Duffy as he works cases in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. And it is the one that has finally convinced me to admit that I love these books unreservedly, without worrying about qualifying them as "genre fiction".
I sadly know next to nothing about Irish history, recent or otherwise, but the setting is such a fertile place for the stories McKinty comes up with. Duffy's a smart guy (the sort who doesn't think highly of himself, but those around him make it clear that he is) and the combination of sardonic Irish humor with the universal cynicism of a sharp-witted detective makes for a wonderful protagonist. It also helps that McKinty can write an excellent story. This one features a locked-room mystery, and it's clear that McKinty had a lot of fun with it.
In the Morning I'll Be Gone is the third book in the Sean Duffy series, which follows Detective Duffy as he works cases in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. And it is the one that has finally convinced me to admit that I love these books unreservedly, without worrying about qualifying them as "genre fiction".
I sadly know next to nothing about Irish history, recent or otherwise, but the setting is such a fertile place for the stories McKinty comes up with. Duffy's a smart guy (the sort who doesn't think highly of himself, but those around him make it clear that he is) and the combination of sardonic Irish humor with the universal cynicism of a sharp-witted detective makes for a wonderful protagonist. It also helps that McKinty can write an excellent story. This one features a locked-room mystery, and it's clear that McKinty had a lot of fun with it.
I found this on a list of great audiobooks, and I’ll have to agree. This is a third book in a series that I don’t know anything about but I thoroughly enjoyed this book so I’ll likely read more.
Early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy is forced out of the police force in disgrace, only for England’s MI5 to recruit him in order to find an old school friend who also happens to be an IRA master bomber. It’s a bit of a goose chase, with Duffy solving a murder mystery for a large portion of the book. It’s fairly fast moving- for perhaps that was the x2 speed? But it was action packed and interesting, I’d certainly recommend.
Early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy is forced out of the police force in disgrace, only for England’s MI5 to recruit him in order to find an old school friend who also happens to be an IRA master bomber. It’s a bit of a goose chase, with Duffy solving a murder mystery for a large portion of the book. It’s fairly fast moving- for perhaps that was the x2 speed? But it was action packed and interesting, I’d certainly recommend.