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Item Details
Title:
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THE COLD COLD GROUND
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By: |
Adrian McKinty |
Format: |
Paperback |
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List price:
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
184668823X |
ISBN 13: |
9781846688232 |
Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
28 June, 2012 |
Edition: |
Main |
Series: |
Detective Sean Duffy |
Pages: |
256 |
Translated from: |
English |
Description: |
Northern Ireland. Spring 1981. Hunger strikes. Bombings. Assassinations. Sky high unemployment. Endemic rioting. Everyone who can is getting out. Amid the madness, Detective Sergeant Duffy is dealing with two cases: what may be Northern Ireland's first ever serial killer and a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder. |
Synopsis: |
Book 1 in the Detective Sean Duffy series.'McKinty is one of Britain's great contemporary crime writers and the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece.'Ian RankinTwo 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.RAIN DOGS WAS WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD 2017 |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Serpent's Tail |
Prizes: |
Winner of Spinetingler Award Best Novel 2013 (UK)
Short-listed for Le Prix du Meilleur Polar 2013 (UK)
Long-listed for CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2013 (UK) |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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