A Mysterious Review of In the Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty. A Sean Duffy Mystery.
Review summary: This is a fine conclusion to an exceptional trilogy, one that unexpectedly includes a cleverly devised locked-room murder mystery at the core of a multi-layered investigation into the whereabouts of a terrorist. From the opening sentences of the first in the series to the final page of this novel, this is crime fiction at its very best. (Click here for text of full review.)
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In the Morning I'll Be Gone
Adrian McKinty
A Sean Duffy Mystery
Seventh Street Books (March 2014)
Publisher synopsis: The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze Prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot's whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the "locked room mystery", the bigger mystery of Dermot's whereabouts might be revealed to him as a reward.
Meanwhile the clock is ticking down to the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton in 1984, where Mrs. Thatcher is due to give a keynote speech …
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