Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy) - Softcover

Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy thrillers set in 1980s Belfast come thick and fast, but the quality remains constant ... The tension between McKinty's competing love of tight, formal puzzles and loose, riffing dialogue is what makes the Duffy novels such a joy ... enormous fun. The last chapters suggest Duffy may be on the verge of becoming a responsible adult. I hope not. (John O'Connell Guardian 2016-01-09)

Someone who always delivers: Adrian McKinty ... he's very good at taking the story in a direction you don't see coming (Val McDermid 2016-01-16)

Thoroughly engaging crime novels... In Rain Dogs, McKinty has had the brilliant idea of challenging Duffy with a locked-room mystery straight out of the golden age of detective fiction ... This is a classic plot with modern twists, but it is Duffy's character - sexist and self-aware by turns - that powers the book to its inevitable conclusion. (Joan Smith Sunday Times 2016-01-03)

McKinty's current exile from his native Carrickfergus has not dampened the heat and immediacy of his tales which are set in the sectarian-ridden Northern Ireland of the 1980s ... Rain Dogs is further proof that time and geographical distance are valuable aids for an author excavating the dark matter of the Troubles. (Anthony J Quinn Irish News 2015-12-31)

Full of humour and good set pieces ... the [plot] revelations are satisfying, I liked the character of Duffy (Anthony Thuillier RTE Radio 1 Arena 2016-01-12)

Adrian McKinty is on a roll ... Rain Dogs, does not disappoint. The dark humour, the verbal jests, and the seamless insertion of real historical figures and events into the fictional narrative are all superbly sustained ... The detail in this historical reconstruction is delicious ...This is clever historical crime with the bite of social commentary and the joy of a crime series at its zenith. (Sue Turnbull Sydney Morning Herald 2016-02-05)

Praise for the Sean Duffy series:

'Fast-paced, intricate and crime to the core.

(Guardian)

McKinty's Troubles-set tales of sarky Belfast cop Sean Duffy are becoming one of the great crime series ... Brilliant (The Sun)

A treat and an education (Val McDermid)

Fluent and fast paced (Sunday Times)