Adrian McKinty – författare

»Ruskigt spännande.« | Magnus Utvik, SVT

»Genuint spännande från första sidan till den sista. Den prisade översättaren Nils Larsson ger Sean Duffy en övertygande röst på svenska.« Betyg 4 av 5 | Viktor Andersson, BTJ

Kommissarie Sean Duffy vet inte vilket som är det mest ofattbara och svårlösta brott han stått inför. En torso placerad i en resväska kommer i alla fall nära...

Ändå behövs det bara en enda liten ledtråd, och där är den: en tatuering. Sean Duffy nu fullt återställd och tillbaka i tjänsten efter det allvarliga trauma som hans senaste fall utgjorde är redo att följa det spår av blod som alltid, oavsett hur svagt det är, länkar samman en kropp med en mördare.

Duffy, en legendariskt envis man, blir besatt och använder gåtan som distraktion från sitt havererade kärleksliv. Han arbetar sig metodiskt igenom varenda vinkel från stadsgator med exploderande IRA-bom - ber till dystra myrar på lands - bygden och vart han än kommer inser han att det är något som inte står rätt till.

Jag hör sirenerna på gatan [I Hear the Sirens in the Street, 2013] är uppföljaren till Kall, kall jord och den andra fristående boken i serien om Sean Duffy - där alla originaltitlar är lånade från låtar av Tom Waits.

ADRIAN MCKINTY är en irländsk författare som blivit känd världen över för sina romaner om kriminalinspektör Sean Duffy. Han har bland annat nominerats till en CWA Steel Dagger och vunnit The Spinetangler Award för Bästa roman. Numera bor han i Melbourne i Australien. Jag hör sirenerna på gatan [I Hear the Sirens in the Street, 2013] är den andra boken i serien om Sean Duffy.

»Den hetlevrade Duffys galghumor firar triumfer (Nils Larsson torde ha haft både roligt och jobbigt när han gjorde denna utmärkta översättning), grundligheten är påfallande, intrigen intrikat och tempot högt.« | Per Magnusson, DAST Magazine

"En av deckarårets absolut bästa nya bekantskaper." GUNILLA WEDDING, SKÅNSKA DAGBLADET

Heather är nygift med den betydligt äldre Tom. Han är änkling med två barn som inte gör någon hemlighet av att de inte tycker om sin nya unga mamma.

Under en semester i Australien lyckas Tom få med sig familjen på en färjetur till en ö där lokalbefolkningen lever under sina egna lagar. Men efter en tragisk olycka förvandlas äventyret till en mardröm. Heather måste nu föra sina nya familjemedlemmar i säkerhet. Även om det innebär att hon behöver göra saker hon aldrig trott sig vara kapabel till.

Jakten är en thriller om överlevnad, familj och anarki.

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OM JAKTEN:

Extraordinär. T.J Newman

Gripande och oförutsebar…Var beredd på att bli uppslukad.Sarah Pearse

Ett gastkramande mästerverk. Steve Cavanagh

Oemotståndlig och pulshöjande.Karin Slaughter

Om KEDJAN:

Herregud, vilket drag. Kedjan är en makalöst bra thriller. Helt tagen.David Lagercrantz

Denna enastående mardrömsberättelse har ett sanslöst driv. En historia du inte kommer skaka av dig i första taget.Stephen King

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Adrian McKinty är född och uppvuxen på Nordirland. Efter att ha studerat filosofi vid Oxford flyttade han till New York, där han bor med sin familj. Hans böcker har vunnit en rad priser, bland annat International Thriller Writers Award. Hans förra bok, Kedjan, blev en omedelbar New York Times-bästsäljare.

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.

New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty continues the Edgar Award–winning Sean Duffy series with Hang On St. Christopher.

Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It’s July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to “Shortbread Land.” Duffy’s a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It’s an easy gig, if he can keep his head down.

But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protégé is on holiday in Spain. A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But something’s not right, and as Duffy probes he discovers the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hit man and why?

This is Duffy’s most violent and dangerous case yet and the whole future of the burgeoning “peace process” may depend upon it. Based on true events, Duffy must unentangle parallel operations by the CIA, MI5, and Special Branch. Duffy attempts to bring a killer to justice while trying to keep himself and his team alive as everything unravels around them. They might not all make it out of this one.

A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland in this pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty.

“McKinty’s writing is dark and witty with gritty realism, spot-on dialogue, and fascinating characters.” —Chicago Sun-Times

It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot's whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the "locked-room mystery," the bigger mystery of Dermot's whereabouts might be revealed to him as a reward. Meanwhile the clock is ticking down to the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in 1984, where Mrs. Thatcher is due to give a keynote speech …

A mysterious suicide and double murder are at the heart of this powerful thriller set in Northern Ireland amidst the Troubles, from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty

“McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history…” —Library Journal (starred review)

Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point-blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where a cabinet minister's daughter died of a heroin overdose, which may or may not have something to do with Kelly's subsequent death.

New evidence leads elsewhere: gun runners, arms dealers, the British government, and a rogue American agent with a fake identity. Duffy thinks he's getting somewhere when agents from MI5 show up at his doorstep and try to recruit him, thus taking him off the investigation.

Duffy is in it up to his neck, doggedly pursuing a case that may finally prove his undoing.

THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR CHILD BACK IS TO KIDNAP ANOTHER CHILD

YOU ARE NOW PART OF THE CHAIN

New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty won an Edgar Award for this “standout in a superior series” (Booklist).

“Shot through with a smart, crackling humor that manages to be both dark and witty.”—Boston Globe

It’s just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?

When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep the case file open, which is how he finds out that Bigelow was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond.

And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: Who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?

From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty, this thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy was a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.

Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.

Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.

"IRRESISTIBLE AND PULSE-POUNDING" Karin Slaughter"A TENSE, PACY PAGE-TURNER" GUARDIAN"BRILLIANT AND RELENTLESS" Don WinslowThe unmissable new thriller from the bestselling author of THE CHAIN.YOU DON''T KNOW WHAT YOU''RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY.After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they''re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom.When they discover a remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it''s up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don''t trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead.Heather has been underestimated her entire life, but she knows that only she can bring her family home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive.SOON TO BE A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES

Here is the stunning conclusion to an epic trilogy that Children''s Literature calls "a thought-provoking sci fi adventure with universal appeal." The worlds that Adrian McKinty''s characters inhabit are vividly real.

In this final and most ambitious book in a wonderfully inventive trilogy, veteran interplanetary travelers Jamie and Ramsay must protect their alien friend Wishaway, now living with them on Earth, from the scrutiny of sinister forces on their own planet. In the meantime, Wishaway''s beloved home planet of Altair seems to be hurtling toward doom. Just when circumstances on both worlds are at their most dire, members of the ancient race who built the mysterious lighthouses return to offer Jamie a terrible choice: he can save Earth or Altair, but not both. The fate of two planets is in the hands of the teenage Lord Ui Neill. Which home will he save, his own or Wishaway''s?