The Detective Up Late

BOOK DETAILS

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland.

As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher.

After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention. A fifteen-year-old traveler girl has disappeared and no one seems to give a damn about it. Duffy begins to dig and uncovers a disturbing underground of men who seem to know her very well. The deeper he digs the more sinister it all gets.

Is finding out the truth worth it if DI Duffy is going to get himself and his colleagues killed? Can he survive one last case before getting himself and his family out over the water?

AUTHOR / TRANSLATOR

Author

Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty is an Irish novelist. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to the United States in the early 1990s, living first in Harlem, New York and from 2001 onwards Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.

Country of Origin

Ireland

Australia

Books:

Series:

Series: Dead Trilogy

Series: Detective Mercado

Series: Michael Forsythe

Series: Sean Duffy

PUBLISHER INFO

Year of Publication

2024

Publisher

Blackstone Publishing

Comments

Re: Last Sean Duffy book??

I haven't read this yet but I'm distraught at the thought of this being the last in this series! I greatly prefer these books to his recent one-off thrillers (although hopefully more are picking up on this series after their success.) I appreciate Adrian McKinty was on the verge of giving up writing until The Chain's success - but no more Sean Duffy? Say it isn't so...?!