Two 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.
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"'If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written' (Peter Millar, Times) 'The names of David Peace and Ellroy are evoked too often in relation to young crime writers, but McKinty shares their method of using the past as a template for the present. The Cold Cold Ground is a crime novel, fast-paced, intricate and genre to the core.' (Eoin McNamee, Guardian) 'Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure' (Irish Independent)"
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Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case. Including risking his life.
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By Sam
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Only having read one Adrian McKinty novel "Fifty Grand" I didn't know what to expect with this one. This book is set in McKinty's home territory of Northern Ireland during the early 1980's, an era I knew almost nothing about. This book is also a police procedural about a police officer on the trail of a homophobic serial killer. There are many unusual aspects to the case but what stands out the electrifying atmosphere of Belfast in middle of chaos, the witty banter between the police officers and the character of Sean Duffy who is a sympathetic and funny central protagonist. As an ordinary Detective Sergeant in the northern Irish police, Duffy is not a superman: he is intelligent and observant but he's believeable. He's not Sherlock Holmes. He makes mistakes, takes wrong turns and is sometimes hotheaded. I've read a lot of books in this genre and I think this is one of the very best ones. The Cold Cold Ground is a great novel and you will not be able to put it down.
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By Seana Graham
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The events of this novel largely take place in Belfast and neighboring towns in the spring of 1981. McKinty was still a child during this historic, tragic moment of Northern Ireland's recent history--and lived through them as a child--but I was an American twenty-something, traveling through England and other parts of Europe for the first time. I didn't get to Northern Ireland, of course--probably wouldn't have even dared if I'd thought of it. But the Hunger Strikes which form a part of the background of this story were much on the mind of everyone in England that we met, that and the Royal Wedding, as well as the assassination attempt on the Pope and other things that mark this novel as accurate to its specific moment. So, for me, there is an odd nostalgia that goes along with this story, and it had an almost uncanny ability to restore the memories of a long forgotten time.
This is the book I've half-consciously wanted McKinty to write since I first began reading him a few years ago. In the earlier Dead I Well May Be, we get a tantalizing look at life in Northern Ireland as the story opens, where we meet Michael Forsythe signing up for some illegal work in Belfast. No sooner do we start to settle into that life, though, than Michael finds himself fleeing the country entirely. Dead I Well May Be is a wonderful book, and one I highly recommend if you haven't read it yet, but there was a part of me that felt a bit cheated when we rather abruptly rejoin Michael, living an illegal alien's life in Harlem, New York. The Northern Ireland that Michael Forsythe slips out of is not quite the Northern Ireland of 1981, but they are older brother and younger brother to each other. There is a bomb at the beginning of Dead I Well May Be, there are more than one in The Cold Cold Ground. One thing that most of us in the world are fortunate enough not to have experienced is what its like to try and live a normal life alongside the violence of a local partisan war. This book, despite being a story about solving a murder, begins to tell us a little about that.
This is the book I've half-consciously wanted McKinty to write since I first began reading him a few years ago. In the earlier Dead I Well May Be, we get a tantalizing look at life in Northern Ireland as the story opens, where we meet Michael Forsythe signing up for some illegal work in Belfast. No sooner do we start to settle into that life, though, than Michael finds himself fleeing the country entirely. Dead I Well May Be is a wonderful book, and one I highly recommend if you haven't read it yet, but there was a part of me that felt a bit cheated when we rather abruptly rejoin Michael, living an illegal alien's life in Harlem, New York. The Northern Ireland that Michael Forsythe slips out of is not quite the Northern Ireland of 1981, but they are older brother and younger brother to each other. There is a bomb at the beginning of Dead I Well May Be, there are more than one in The Cold Cold Ground. One thing that most of us in the world are fortunate enough not to have experienced is what its like to try and live a normal life alongside the violence of a local partisan war. This book, despite being a story about solving a murder, begins to tell us a little about that.
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I was really looking forward to this one as it was set in a place and time with which I am very familiar but.... I was actually rather disappointed after a good start though geographically it was extremely accurate. The main character had very little appeal and I actually found myself quite hoping one side or another would give him a nasty moment or two. The reputation for honesty of the RUC took a bit of a hammering and given the time and the situation it was probably not undeserved. My main problem with the book is that it was rather dull with just the odd spark to keep you going. The ending I found somewhat improbable - possible, though I wouldn't have thought likely, and how our hero reached his conclusion I thought was a bit of a far leap. That said, I didn't find it difficult to read through to the end and there were some funny moments and a few exciting ones - not enough though to make me rush off to buy other books by the same author. Maybe I just expected too much but I did find it a bit of a let down which is why I gave it 3 stars as it is OK.
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