There will be many readers waiting for the next adventure of the dashing and intrepid Sergeant Duffy. he manages to catch the brooding atmosphere of the 1980s and to tell a ripping yarn at the same time. 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 creates a marvellous sense of time and place. Eoin McNamee * Guardian * Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure * Irish Independent * Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure. The Cold Cold Ground is a crime novel, fast-paced, intricate and genre to the core. Adrian McKinty channels Dennis Lehane, David Peace and Joseph Wambaugh to create a brilliant novel with its own unique voice - Stuart Neville The names of David Peace and Ellroy are evoked too often in relation to young crime writers, but McKinty shares their method of using the past as a template for the present. * Guardian * If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written - Peter Millar * Times * The Cold Cold Ground is a razor sharp thriller set against the backdrop of a country in chaos, told with style, courage and dark-as-night wit. a brilliant novel with its own unique voice - STUART NEVILLE, AUTHOR OF THE TWELVE The Cold Cold Ground is fast-paced, intricate and crime to the core. A razor sharp thriller told with style, courage and dark-as-night wit.
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