The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty audiobook

The Cold Cold Ground

By Adrian McKinty
Read by Gerard Doyle

Blackstone Publishing, Blackstone Publishing 9781616147167

The Sean Duffy Series: Book 1

10.07 Hours • Unabridged
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Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles—and of a cop treading a thin, thin line—from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty. “McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the scene in years.” —Tana French Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job—especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. Add to this the fact that, as a Catholic policeman, it doesn’t matter which side he’s on, because nobody trusts him, and Sergeant Duffy really is in a no-win situation. 

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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

Winner of the Spinetingler Award for Best Crime Novel

Longlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award

A Kirkus Reviews Pick of Recommended Audiobooks

Selected for the November 2012 Indie Next List

Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles—and of a cop treading a thin, thin line—from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty.

“McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the scene in years.” —Tana French

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job—especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. Add to this the fact that, as a Catholic policeman, it doesn’t matter which side he’s on, because nobody trusts him, and Sergeant Duffy really is in a no-win situation. 

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“The audiobook exceeds all expectations because of narrator Gerard Doyle. His storytelling is understated, and his dialect work is remarkable…Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“A dark-humored shamus in the Philip Marlowe tradition.” —Wall Street Journal
“[A] deft mix of noirish melancholy with express-train pacing and blockbuster-ready action.” —Publishers Weekly
“A razor-sharp thriller…told with style, courage, and dark-as-night wit.” —Stuart Neville, author of The House of Ashes
“Riveting, brilliant, and just about the best book yet on Northern Ireland.” —Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor novels
“A masterpiece of Troubles crime fiction.” —Irish Times (Dublin)
“A crime novel, fast-paced, intricate, and genre to the core.” —The Guardian (London)
“McKinty creates a marvelous sense of time and place.” —Irish Independent (Dublin)
“If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written.” —The Times (London)
“Reader Gerard Doyle captures every ironic twitch of McKinty’s world-weary Duffy…In each note of Doyle’s narration you hear Duffy’s resignation to the madness surrounding him. The plots are riveting, but the front-row seat to Duffy’s deteriorating equilibrium makes them even better.” —Kirkus Reviews (audio review)
“Everything in this novel hits all the right notes, from its brilliant evocation of time and place to razor-sharp dialogue to detailed police procedures.” —Booklist (starred review)
“McKinty’s fine police procedural is also the ultimate page-turner.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“A journey into a terrifying and almost dreamlike labyrinth of violence and betrayal.” —Shots Crime & Thriller Ezine

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Author

Author Bio: Adrian McKinty

Author Bio: Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. His father was a welder in Harland and Wolff—the shipyard where they built the Titanic; his mother was a school lunch lady and secretary. Adrian went to Oxford University on a full scholarship where he studied philosophy. 

Emigrating first to America and then Australia he found work as a door-to-door salesman, a driver, a bookstore clerk, a barman, a high school English teacher, and a semipro rugby player. 

His debut crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the 2004 Dagger Award and was optioned by Universal Pictures. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels that have been translated into over forty languages. He has won the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award.  

His 2020 novel The Chain was a New York Times bestseller and appeared on twenty-five best-of-the-year lists. His 2022 novel The Island was an instant New York Times bestseller and made five best-of-the-year lists including those of the London Times and the New York Times. 

Adrian is a member of the Linnean Society and the National Audubon Society. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.  

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Available Formats : Digital Download, CD, MP3 CD, Hardcover, Paperback
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Runtime: 10.07
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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