Review: I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty

A Mysterious Review of I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty. A Sean Duffy Mystery.

Review summary: This is a meticulously crafted murder mystery, one that quickly captures the reader's attention and then races ahead. A clever integration of fictional story within a factual environment, there is scarcely a scene, an action, or a detail that isn't important or comes into play at one point or another. (Click here for text of full review.)

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I Hear the Sirens in the Street
Adrian McKinty
A Sean Duffy Mystery
Seventh Street Books (May 2013)

Publisher synopsis: A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case. But Sean Duffy isn't easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of distraction. So, with Detective Constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim.

The torso turns out to be all that's left of an American tourist who once served in the US military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles? The trail leads to the doorstep of a beautiful, flame-haired, twenty-something widow, whose husband died at the hands of an IRA assassination team just a few months before.

Suddenly, Duffy is caught between his romantic instincts, gross professional misconduct, and powerful men he should know better than to mess with. These include British intelligence, the FBI, and local paramilitary death squads, enough to keep even the savviest detective busy. Duffy's growing sense of self-doubt isn't helping. But, being a legendarily stubborn man, he doesn't let that stop him pursuing the case to its explosive conclusion.