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Author Adrian McKintyAdrian McKinty was born and grew up in a working class housing project in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the worst decades of the Troubles. He attended Oxford University on a full scholarship to study philosophy. He fell in love with a girl there and followed her to New York City where he worked as an illegal in bars and building sites and as a Teamster driver for three years before marrying the girl and becoming a US citizen. He taught high school in Denver and Boulder before moving to Melbourne Australia where he decided to write full time.

His Sean Duffy series has currently sold in excess of 250,000 copies since its debut in 2012.

Over the past years Adrian’s books have been shortlisted for the Edgar Award, Dagger Award, Anthony Award, Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Ned Kelly Award and the Prix SNCF.

Adrian McKinty Book List and Awards
His website: www.adrianmckinty.com
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Adrian McKinty Bibliography


Michael Forsythe Trilogy

  1. Dead I Well May Be - 2003
  2. The Dead Yard - 2006
  3. The Bloomsday Dead - 2007

The Lighthouse Trilogy

  1. The Lighthouse Land - 2006
  2. The Lighthouse War - 2007
  3. The Lighthouse Keepers - 2008

Sean Duffy Series

  1. The Cold Cold Ground (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) - 2012
  2. I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) - 2013
  3. In the Morning I'll Be Gone (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) - 2014
  4. Gun Street Girl (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) - 2015
  5. Rain Dogs (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) - 2016
  6. Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly - 2017
  7. The Detective Up Late - 2018
  8. Alter Hund, Neue Tricks - 2020

Stand-Alone Books

  • Orange Rhymes With Everything - 1998
  • Hidden River - 2005
  • Fifty Grand - 2009
  • Falling Glass - 2011
  • Deviant - 2011
  • The Sun Is God (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) - 2014
  • The Chain - 2019
  • The Island - 2022

As Editor
  • Belfast Noir - 2014 with Stuart Neville

Adrian McKinty Awards

  • Spinetingler Award for The Cold Ground - 2013

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