Rain Dogs
Detective Sean Duffy, Book 5
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Narrated by:
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Gerard Doyle
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Adrian McKinty
About this listen
Edgar Award winner, Best Paperback Original, 2017.
Rain Dogs, a stunning installment in the Sean Duffy thriller series, following the Edgar Award-nominated Gun Street Girl, is "another standout in a superior series" (Booklist).
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 a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep the case file open, which is how he finds out that Bigelow 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?
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- mr
- 26-11-19
Smart crackling thrillers
McKinty is a sharp and smart wrietr. Captures the period and place exceptionally well. And its an great background for the stories. Its probably fair to say he writes the males better than the females, but overall a really rewarding series.
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- JOD
- 23-10-23
good story
I think this is a fair representation of what northern Ireland was like in the trouble's, the story is good and I listened to the end.
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- C Mitchell
- 04-05-22
Storytelling and poetry tugging at your memory all the time
First time I have listened to a Adrian McGinty novel and it took me a little while to settle into it, the style and the narration. Initially I could not make my mind up if it was a black comedy or a genuine whodunnit whilst looking at that period of history in Ireland. But I loved this book, possibly a bit because I lived during this chaos which touched everyone. Well worth the investment of the time.
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- Katy
- 23-06-23
Another triumph
So glad I discovered Adrian McKinty, Sean McKinty and the crew. I've never consumed a whole series in a row but, apart from snippets of Len Macluskey's Always Red (still to be finished) so far books 1-5. I'm going onto book 6 now.
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- L.J.M.
- 24-01-19
Compelling, well-researched thriller
The Sean Duffy series is one of the best detective thriller series I have read in recent years. I find the prevalence of bad language disturbing but these books are so very well narrated that this criticism becomes a minor one.
To anyone who remembers the years of the Troubles and the nightly news coverage of the same, McKinty's Ulster gives a potent and unflinching view of life for the police in Northern Ireland at the time.
The characters are memorable and the plots extremely well-constructed with frequent referrals to, and inclusion of, real events. Even the minor characters, ( eg. Sean Duffy's crazy neighbours) stand out as individuals in a dramatic and extraordinary time of tragedy and upheaval.
I wholeheartedly recommend these novels to anyone who enjoys well-written, complex, intelligent, edgy crime fiction.
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- JLBinPE
- 29-08-19
Another good one
Enjoyed this new installment in the Duffy series. Great performance again and interesting plot twists.
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- GORDON
- 03-10-16
This series just gets better and better
Inspector Sean Duffy is a relentless investigator, who's right into his music and quite fond of the drink and the cigarettes.
He's ably backed by The Crabman and Young Lawson in a captivating tale of intrigue which unfolds at a gentle but persistent pace.
There are none of the daft chase / fight scenes which blight other detective stories, and McKinty's turn of phrase is beguiling.
Gerard Doyle's narration is sublime. Terrific stuff.
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- Doylersb
- 07-02-18
McKinty delivers again.
Excellent story with lots of twists and turns. Interesting use of Jimmy Saville and other scandals intertwined with Sean Duffy to give an added edge and suspension of disbelief underlaid with gallows humour .
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- AmazonCustomer7894
- 17-01-23
Narration is best I've heard
Sean Duffy classic, a little predictable but an amusing and well written tale made totally worth it by the fantastic narrator
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- Anonymous User
- 25-01-24
Great book
I love this series, can’t wait to download book six and see how Sean copes with being a dad
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