I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Sean Duffy Series #2)

by Adrian McKinty Narrated by Gerard Doyle

Overview

A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case, but Sean Duffy isn't easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of a distraction. So with Detective Constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim. The torso turns out to be all that's left of an American tourist who once served in the US military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles? The trail leads to the doorstep of a beautiful, flame-haired, twentysomething widow, whose husband died at the hands of an IRA assassination team just a few months before. Suddenly Duffy is caught between his romantic instincts, gross professional misconduct, and powerful men he should know better than to mess with. These include British intelligence, the FBI, and local paramilitary death squads-enough to keep even the savviest detective busy. Duffy's growing sense of self-doubt isn't helping. But as a legendarily stubborn man, he doesn't let that stop him from pursuing the case to its explosive conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

• Winner! Barry Award for Best Paperback Original, 2014
• #3 on Booklist’s The Year’s Best Crime Novels /Top Ten Crime Fiction 
• Shortlisted for 2013 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Crime Novel 
• Longlisted for the Theakston Best British Crime Novel Award

“In this pitch-perfect sequel to The Cold Cold Ground...Duffy is nearly overwhelmed by politics. This is crime fiction at its best: a police procedural with dialogue that’s crisp and occasionally lighthearted; blistering action that’s often lethal; McKinty’s mordant Belfastian wit; and a protagonist readers won’t want to leave behind when the trilogy ends.”
—BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW

“I Hear the Sirens in the Street blew my bloody doors off!”
—IAN RANKIN, author of the Inspector Rebus novels
 
“Adrian McKinty has the chops to do all manner of things with words, and in I Hear the Sirens in the Street he unleashes a strain of rough and visual, sly and lyric narrative prose in service of one hell of a story. Sean Duffy is a great creation, a figure of many parts, and the place comes alive.”
—DANIEL WOODRELL, author of The Outlaw Album: Stories

JULY 2013 - AudioFile

This classic police procedural is set in 1982, the fourteenth year of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland. John DeLorean is building cars in Belfast, the Argentine junta has occupied the Falkland Islands, and Detective Inspector Sean Duffy finds a dismembered body in a suitcase. This is the second of McKinty's “Troubles trilogy”—in which he brings one of the most conflict-filled periods in recent history alive. Gerard Doyle does a wonderful job with the ineffable accents of Northern Ireland and the rhythm of its dialogue. Doyle’s narration is clear, well paced, and consistent. It perfectly matches the rising darkness that seems to surround Duffy as he searches for a killer. F.C. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169748574
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	05/14/2013
Series:	Sean Duffy Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,047,303

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