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Dec 03, 2019
PattyMacDotComma
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it was amazing
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4.5★
“If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.”
I’ve just discovered this is the last of the Sean Duffy series so now I simply have to read the earlier ones. It was fine as a stand-alone mystery, incidentally, but I bet I’d have been more quickly absorbed in the story if I were already ...more
“If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.”
I’ve just discovered this is the last of the Sean Duffy series so now I simply have to read the earlier ones. It was fine as a stand-alone mystery, incidentally, but I bet I’d have been more quickly absorbed in the story if I were already ...more
The murder of a known drug dealer sets off a chain of events which ultimately leads Sean Duffy to dig his own grave. Down a rabbit warren of violence, corruption, assassination, and complicated by vigilante groups and IRA hit squads, this murder is anything but a simple gang/drug related homicide.
Much like the other books in the series, there's a healthy dose of Duffy's personal life which adds depth to the character, this time round it's the added emphasis on Duffy as a family man with live-in ...more
Much like the other books in the series, there's a healthy dose of Duffy's personal life which adds depth to the character, this time round it's the added emphasis on Duffy as a family man with live-in ...more
An unusual choice for a book club read - for my book club anyway - and we all loved it! Enjoyed the cracking pace, the wise-cracking, the whole thing was a total Craic, really (sorry for the pun). McKinty's Irish voice comes through loud and strong and really brings his character, DC Sean Duffy, to life. He's clearly comfortable writing about the complicated mess that Northern Ireland was at that time, and can tackle those issues where an outsider could not. And he does it with humour, and keeps
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Dec 03, 2016
Donna
marked it as to-read
Mar 18, 2017
Brenda
marked it as to-read
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Apr 11, 2018
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
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May 12, 2023
Margaret
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Nov 30, 2023
Gaynor
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