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Gun Street Girl

Detective Sean Duffy, Book 4

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Gun Street Girl

By: Adrian McKinty
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point-blank range and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where a cabinet minister's daughter died of a heroin overdose, which may or may not have something to do with Kelly's subsequent death.

New evidence leads elsewhere: gun runners, arms dealers, the British government, and a rogue American agent with a fake identity. Duffy thinks he's getting somewhere when agents from MI5 show up at his doorstep and try to recruit him, thus taking him off the investigation.

Duffy is in it up to his neck, doggedly pursuing a case that may finally prove to be his undoing.

©2015 Adrian McKinty (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Police Procedural
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  • Shortlisted for the 2016 Audie Award (Best Mystery) and the 2016 Edgar Award (Best Pbk Original)

"When it comes to Northern Irish crime fiction, Adrian McKinty forged the path the rest of us follow. The Sean Duffy series is the culmination of a career spent examining our darkest moments, and McKinty is the only crime writer who can do justice to our singular history." (Stuart Neville, author of The Final Silence)

"Series fans will appreciate the further insight into the fallout from tragic cases, department politics, and war. As usual, there's plenty of entertaining territorial battling between the dizzying array of law-enforcement agencies acting in Belfast, and Duffy's investigative skills seem somehow sharpened by his lost hope." (Booklist)

"Gerard Doyle gives a stunning narration of the fourth installment of McKinty's Detective Sean Duffy series.... From the subtle changes in dialect to McKinty's distinct writing cadence and dark humor, Doyle hones in on the details that make this procedural a joy to listen to." (AudioFile)
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Great story - the narrator is sublime - and the characters entertaining. I'm going back to start this series again, it's so good.

Terrific

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Very well told and much appreciated as a Sean Duffy case. Mystery and intrigue until the end. Johnh

Great, in depth story.

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Great listen, so intelligent, chilling, human and fun. It really did get my heart palpitating. The best series on Audible

Amazing story with the background of real events

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Great series each story develops characters from previously but could be stand alone. Narrator is excellent

Plausible and brilliantly narrated

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The best listen a while. The narrator was great the best iv heard. A fab read. This is one book I definitely recommend.

GREAT

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