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Informationen zum Autor Adrian McKinty was born in Carrickfergus! Northern Ireland! and grew up at the height of the Troubles. He studied law! politics and philosophy at university. In the early 1990s he moved to New York City where he worked in bars! bookstores and building sites. He now lives in Melbourne! Australia.The first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award! its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award! and Sean Duffy Thriller #3! In the Morning I'll be Gone! won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award and was picked as one of the top 10 crime novels of 2014 by the American Library Association. Klappentext Book 1 in the Detective Sean Duffy series."McKinty is one of Britain's great contemporary crime writers and the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece." - Ian RankinTwo dead.One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement.The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in a forest. Surely a suicide: she'd just given birth, but there's no sign of the baby.Nothing seems to link the two, but Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy knows the links that seem to be invisible are just waiting to be uncovered. And as a policeman who has solved six murders so far in his career, but not yet brought a single case to court, Duffy is determined that this time, someone will pay.RAIN DOGS WAS WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD 2017Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case. Including risking his life. Zusammenfassung Northern Ireland. Spring 1981. Hunger strikes. Bombings. Assassinations. Sky high unemployment. Endemic rioting. Everyone who can is getting out. Amid the madness, Detective Sergeant Duffy is dealing with two cases: what may be Northern Ireland's first ever serial killer and a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder.
