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A review by kenlaan
In the Morning I'll Be Gone: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel by Adrian McKinty
5.0
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.