A Mysterious Review of Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty. A Sean Duffy Mystery.
Review summary: All of the elements that made the superb, finely crafted trilogy so compelling are here in this unexpected, but welcome, fourth entry, including deftly drawn characters, solid plotting, and a narrative style that works perfectly within the context of the setting. But it somehow doesn't feel as organic as it should. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Gun Street Girl
Adrian McKinty
A Sean Duffy Mystery
Seventh Street Books (March 2015)
Publisher synopsis: Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles": Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point blank 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. This 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 his undoing.
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