The Cold Cold Ground | 
pickThe first in the Sean Duffy series (#SeriesLove2025). Duffy is a Catholic detective in Protestant N. Ireland during The Troubles. This was a great start to the series and Duffy is a complex character. I look forward to more in the series. Gerald Doyle was a fabulous narrator of the audiobook.
My first finish for #14Books14Weeks2025
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Anyone reading this is tagged!
pickWe binge watched Derry Girls last week, so I was looking for books set during The Troubles. This one is the first of The Troubles Trilogy and follows Sean Duffy, the only Catholic police officer in a Protestant neighbor, as well as on the force. I really enjoyed it. There was a good amount of dark humor as well as history that was weaved through the story, and I have already downloaded book 2.
Day 7 - #Cold #WordsOfOctober
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This is the 1st book in the excellent Sean Duffy series.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really enjoyed it and want more so that must be a sign that it‘s a great series 😊
Great writing, descriptions, well developed characters and that subtle humor throughout gives the book a lot of character. Very enjoyable...I have a couple of great series now to devote some time to this fall 🍁 and winter ❄️
Here‘s the link to 4 chapters of a new Sean Duffy rough copy in progress:
https://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com/p/hang-on-st-christopher-adrian-mckinty.html
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Excellent series! Anxiously awaiting another book in this series!
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Jane Casey‘s Maeve Kerrigan series gets special mention. Also Ken Follett‘s books are all excellent reads.
pickThis was a good introduction to the series. I loved the first half of the book and enjoyed getting to know this new character, Sean Duffy is certainly an interesting and brave, if foolhardy at times, character. I do however feel the second half didn‘t maintain this standard at times and felt it was treading water at times. That said there was a different ending to the book and I enjoyed the book overall. I look forward to continuing this series.
pickThis book takes place in Belfast Northern Ireland in Spring 1981. It‘s a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles. A serial killer is targeting gay men and Sean McDuffy is the cop caught in the crossfire. It‘s fast-paced, evocative and brutal with quality prose. I learned a lot about the IRA and the hunger strikes. Looking forward to the next in the series.
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Starting A Cold, Cold Ground as a Buddy Read. This in quite an informal buddy read with discussion at the end of the book. All welcome to join. This is book 1 in the DS Sean Duffy Series. #AdrianMcKintyBuddyRead #SeanDuffyBuddyRead
Repost for @Andrew65 :
During 2019 @EadieB @Tove_Reads and @Andrew65 Will be doing a buddy read of the six books in the DS Sean Duffy Series set in Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles in the 1980s. Happy for anyone to join us. To help organisation and planning I have put the start dates for the buddy reads for each book.
We‘d love for other people to join us.
During 2019 @EadieB @Tove_Reads and @Andrew65 Will be doing a buddy read of the six books in the DS Sean Duffy Series set in Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles in the 1980s. Happy for anyone to join us. To help organisation and planning I have put the start dates for the buddy reads for each book.
We‘d love for other people to join us.
Can‘t keep track of our buddy reads anymore... We have Lamentation Jan 14, Echoes Jan 19, Whiteout, The Cold Cold Ground, Birdman, and me and @EadieB Here Be Dragons. Can‘t remember if we‘ve set other dates?! @Andrew65
The jury has spoken and these are the final choices in the #CrimeSeriesBuddyRead @Andrew65 @Tove_Reads and @EadieB will be reading in 2019. Others will be welcome to join us.
We will start the first series the first week in January with the tagged book, which is the first book in the Detective Sean Duffy Series which is set in Northern Ireland.
This book was written in 2012, which I will mark off for my #CenturyofBooks Challenge.
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Frozen earth is pretty #SolidGround. 😉
This thriller is set in Northern Ireland in 1981, which means politics on top of the murder that has to be solved.
Doing some audio-puzzling tonight. Listening to Bk1 in Adrian McKintys series about a Catholic policeman in Ulster during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It's hard to do your job when no one trusts you, including your colleagues. I love doing jigsaw puzzles on my iPad, less chance of losing a piece and I don't need a table to spread out on. What's everyone else up to tonight//today? #itsapuzzler
so-soThis was a "So-So" read. I didn't quite warm to the MC but I liked the murder-mystery.
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#JuneTunz #day9 #BelfastChild I'm listening to this on audiobook at the moment,with the thick accent of the narrator it really gives you that sense of being there.Set in Belfast at the height of the troubles,Detective Sergeant Duffy is trying to get to the bottom of a series of killings,but as a catholic policeman, he's trusted by no one & to make things worse, one of the victims might be IRA but was last seen talking to someone from the UVF.
One of my very favorite living authors, Adrian McKinty is the author of The Dead Trilogy and the Sean Duffy series. He lives in Australia, so not likely to meet him, although he did just win his first Edgar (about time!) and his publisher should see he needs a U.S. tour! #KostovaGiveaway
pickTatsächlich hat mir das Buch ausgesprochen gut gefallen. Die düstere Atmosphäre im Belfast der 80er Jahre, in Verbindung mit herzerfrischenden und witzigen Dialogen und einer guten Geschichte hat für sehr viel Lesespaß gesorgt.
pickRandom audio selection for a reading challenge and what a great random choice. Set in Northern Ireland during the early 80's Sean Duffy is an interesting main character. Interesting the author is Irish but loves in Melbourne Australia. Looking forward to reading more in the series. The narrator was great on this one
Was looking for a new audio book and found this one on #overdrive tonight, being the proud daughter of an Irishman from Belfast it should be interesting
Der Regen draußen war so stark, als würde der Hass in auf Rathcoole prasseln lassen, nicht die Schwerkraft.
Krimi ist ja nicht gerade mein Stammgenre und Serienmörder schrecken mich normalerweise ab. Diese Geschichte hat mich aber ganz schnell gepackt und ich bin zuversichtlich, dass ich nicht wieder wochenlang an 300 Seiten herumlese.
so-soWonderful sense of place - life in early 1980s northern Ireland during the Troubles - & dry sense of humour. It's a hard-boiled crime novel, but the style is too abrupt for me & occasionally clunky. I found Sean Duffy hard to relate to (sexist, or no-nonsense & of his time?) - a so-so read for me. Adrian mckinty is a very funny raconteur though so I wanted to like it more!
Thoroughly enjoying this thriller set in Northern Ireland (even on a 38 degree day)! ☀️
This is the only book list that really counts - well, it's the one with all the books on that I've read this year. Not all of them made it into Litsy (I only joined a while ago) and I forgot to put all of them into Goodreads.
So it's 56 books finished, so far. I haven't counted the abandoned books.
pickGreat detective work in Belfast, 1981. The plot is a bit all over the place but the setting feels authentic and the sectarian tension feels real. I guess McKinty would love to be the Northern Irish Ellroy and that's a perfectly fine ambition. I might pick up the next in the series to see if Duffy's the real deal or derivative bunkum.
