Adrian McKinty

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born

January 01, 1968 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ireland

gender

male

website

http://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Adrian McKinty is an Irish novelist. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to the United States in the early 1990s, living first in Harlem, New York and from 2001 onwards Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.

Awards
His debut crime novel Dead I Well May Be was short-listed for the CWA Steel Dagger Award 2004.
His debut young adult novel The Lighthouse Land was shortlisted for the 2008 Young Hoosier Award and the 2008 Beehive Award
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Books by Adrian McKinty

Average rating: 3.81 · 2,244 ratings · 427 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe #1) 4.07 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Lighthouse Land (Lighthouse Trilogy, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Dead Yard (Michael Forsythe #2) 4.00 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Bloomsday Dead (Michael Forsythe #3) 4.02 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Fifty Grand 3.47 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Hidden River 3.68 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Lighthouse War (Lighthouse Trilogy, #2) 3.73 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Falling Glass by Adrian McKinty, Gerard Doyle (Reader) 3.84 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Lighthouse Keepers (Lighthouse Trilogy, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Series by Adrian McKinty

Michael Forsythe (3 books)
by Adrian McKinty

4.04 avg rating — 1,047 ratings

Lighthouse Trilogy (3 books)
by Adrian McKinty

3.68 avg rating — 528 ratings

Sean Duffy (1 book)
by Adrian McKinty

4.22 avg rating — 78 ratings

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Quotes by Adrian McKinty

“Forget him, he's just another red-shirted extra making a cameo appearance in our lives.”
― Adrian McKinty

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