The Cold Cold Ground
By Adrian McKinty
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Book 1 in the Detective Sean Duffy series. "McKinty is one of Britain's great contemporary crime writers and the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece." - Ian Rankin Two dead. One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement. The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in a forest. Surely a suicide: she'd just given birth, but there's no sign of the baby. Nothing
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The Cold Cold Ground
9781847657954
Serpent's Tail
5 January 2012
EPUB
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2.42 MB
English
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
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Awards
Winner of Spinetingler Award Best Novel 2013 (UK)
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Short-listed for Le Prix du Meilleur Polar 2013 (UK)
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Long-listed for CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2013 (UK)
Winner of Spinetingler Award Best Novel 2013 (UK)
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Short-listed for Le Prix du Meilleur Polar 2013 (UK)
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Long-listed for CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2013 (UK)
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Short-listed for Le Prix du Meilleur Polar 2013 (UK)
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Long-listed for CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2013 (UK)
Winner of Spinetingler Award Best Novel 2013 (UK)
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Short-listed for Le Prix du Meilleur Polar 2013 (UK)
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Long-listed for CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2013 (UK)
Reviews
Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure... McKinty has not lost his touch or his eye for the bizarre and the macabre, or his ear for the Belfast accent and argot. ...McKinty crea...
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Author Biography
Adrian McKinty was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, and grew up at the height of the Troubles. He studied law, politics and philosophy at university. In the early 1990s he moved to New York City where he worked in bars, bookstores and building sites. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia. The first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013 Spinetingler Award, its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, and Sean Duffy Thriller #3, In the Morning I'll be Gone, won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award and was picked as one of the top 10 crime novels of 2014 by the American Library Association.