Lead Review

  • Book: The Cold Cold Ground
  • Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Author: Adrian McKinty

Location

Content

This is the first of four Sean Duffy books and it is Belfast 1981. Bobby Sands has died on hunger strike, people are vigilant for explosives. The city is a tense and fractured place.

The police are after a homophobic serial killer, yet there is also the murder of a woman to contend with. Sean Duffy is the detective in charge, witty and largely sympathetic, the reader is brought in to engage with the investigations.

It is a stylish page turner with an evocative setting.

 

 

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