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Published Mar 2016
329 pages
Genre: Mysteries
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"2017 Edgar Award Winner" (best paperback original)"
It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?
When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are just a few things that bother Duffy enough to keep the case file open. Which is how he finds out that she was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond.
And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: Who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?
Edgar Awards, 2017
"Starred Review. Rain Dogs has been shortlisted for the 2017 Edgar Award, the 2016 Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award, the 2016 Ned Kelly Award, the 2017 Barry Award and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2016
In Rain Dogs Det. Insp. Sean Duffy must solve the equivalent of a locked-room mystery in McKinty's scorching fifth installment in his excellent Troubles-set Northern Irish crime series (after 2015's Edgar Award Shortlisted Gun Street Girl)....McKinty expertly balances Duffy's tense and suspenseful investigation with the political tensions of the region." - Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. The chronicles of Carrickfergus detective Sean Duffy open a sardonic portal to 1980s Belfast; every detail [of Rain Dogs] rings true, from the persistent threat of mercury-tilt car bombs to the complex criminal motivations that breed in a climate of unrest...McKinty manages a second locked-room success and folds in the recent headline-snatching Jimmy Savile scandal to boot; another great standout in a superior series, combining terrific plotting with evocative historical detail." - Booklist
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