Gun Street Girl

RAIN DOGS WAS WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD 2017Book 4 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 RANKINBelfast, 1985. Gunrunners on the borders, riots in the cities, The Power of Love on the radio. And somehow, hanging on, is Detective Inspector Sean Duffy, a Catholic policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.The usual rounds of riot duty and sectarian murders are interrupted when a wealthy couple are shot dead while watching TV. Their son jumps to his death, leaving a note claiming responsibility. But something doesn’t add up, and people keep dying.Soon Sean Duffy, Belfast’s most roguish detective, is on the trail of a mystery that will pit him against shadowy US national security forces, and take him into the white-hot heart of the biggest political scandal of the decade.