Adrian McKinty

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1997
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Detective Sean Duffy Novel

1 - The Cold Cold Ground (Nov-2012)
2 - I Hear the Sirens in the Street (May-2013)
3 - In the Morning I'll Be Gone (Mar-2014)
4 - Gun Street Girl (Mar-2015)
5 - Rain Dogs (Mar-2016)
6 - Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Mar-2017)
7 - The Detective Up Late (Aug-2023)
8 - Hang on St. Christopher (Mar-2025)

The Lighthouse Trilogy

1 - The Lighthouse Land (Oct-2006)
2 - The Lighthouse War (Oct-2007)
3 - The Lighthouse Keepers (Sep-2008)

Michael Forsythe

1 - Dead I Well May Be (Oct-2003)
2 - The Dead Yard (Feb-2006)
3 - The Bloomsday Dead (Mar-2007)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Orange Rhymes With Everything

    A debut novel explores the world of Protestants in Northern Ireland, as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl living in Ireland and an Irish man being held in a New York City mental hospital awaiting extradition, a man who may be the girl's father....

  • Dead I Well May Be

    Michael Forsythe - 1

    This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal. "I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went." So admits M...

  • Hidden River

    The electrifying noir thriller from a major new talent, in which a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved, and whose peculiar sexual banter he will later have urgent reason to recall -...

  • The Dead Yard

    Michael Forsythe - 2

    With the same poetic lilt and heart-stopping suspense that made Dead I Well May Be a critical favorite, the saga continues with The Dead Yard -- a thriller in which Michael Forsythe must insinuate himself into the good graces of a band of calculating...

  • The Lighthouse Land

    The Lighthouse Trilogy - 1

    HOW EAR WOULD YOU GO TO BE A HERO? WOULD YOU TRAVEL ACROSS THE OCEAN? HOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE? When Jamie O'Neill's mother inherits a small island in Ireland, her son inherits an extraordinary destiny. The island has a secret, locked in the to...

  • The Bloomsday Dead

    Michael Forsythe - 3

    In the heart-stopping finale of the Dead trilogy, tough guy Michael Forsythe -- bad-boy antihero of the critically acclaimed Dead I Well May Be and The Dead Yard -- returns to his native Ireland, where a dangerous and beautiful old flame forces Micha...

  • The Lighthouse War

    The Lighthouse Trilogy - 2

    This sequel to The Lighthouse Land is “better than the first . . . nonstop action.”*

     

  • The Lighthouse Keepers

    The Lighthouse Trilogy - 3

    The stunning conclusion to an epic trilogy, which Children’s Literature calls “a thought-provoking sci-fi adventure with universal appeal”   In this final and most ambitious book in a wonderfully inventive sci-fi trilogy, vete...

  • Fifty Grand

    This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective's quest for vengeance against her father's killer in a Colorado mountain town A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the t...



  • Falling Glass

    An old associate of regular McKinty hero Michael Forsythe, Killian makes a living enforcing other people's laws, collecting debts, dealing out threats. Now Forsythe sets Killian up with the best paid job of his life. A prominent, politically connecte...

  • Deviant

    Danny Lopez is new in town. He made a mistake back home in Las Vegas, and now he has landed at an experimental school in Colorado for "tough cases." At the Cobalt Charter School, everything is scripted -- what the teachers say, what the students repl...

  • The Cold Cold Ground

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 1

    Spring 1981. Northern Ireland. Belfast on the verge of outright civil war. The Thatcher government has flooded the area with soldiers, but nightly there are riots, bombings, and sectarian attacks. In the midst of the chaos, Sean Duffy, a young, witty...

  • I Hear the Sirens in the Street

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 2

    A Barry Award winner and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award!

    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 distraction. So, with Dete...

  • In the Morning I'll Be Gone

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 3

    A Ned Kelly Award winner!

    Detective Sean Duffy works to crack a locked room mystery while tracking an escaped IRA master bomber.

    The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Consta...

  • The Sun Is God

    FROM THE EDGAR® AWARD-NOMINATED AUTHOR OF THE DETECTIVE SEAN DUFFY NOVELS

    Colonial New Guinea -- 1906:  a small group of mostly German nudists live an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and...

  • Gun Street Girl

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 4

    Shortlisted for the Anthony, Ned Kelly, and Edgar® Awards! 

    Belfast, 1985, amidst the “Troubles”:  Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brut...

  • Rain Dogs

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 5

    "2017 Edgar Award Winner" (best paperback original)"It’s just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?   When ...

  • Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 6

    A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2017!

    Shortlisted for the Anthony, Ned Kelly, and Edgar® Awards!

    Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who i...

  • The Chain

    VICTIM. SURVIVOR. ABDUCTOR. CRIMINAL. YOU WILL BECOME EACH ONE. YOUR PHONE RINGS. A STRANGER HAS KIDNAPPED YOUR CHILD. TO FREE THEM YOU MUST ABDUCT SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD. YOUR CHILD WILL BE RELEASED WHEN YOUR VICTIM'S PARENTS K...



  • The Island

    A "brilliant and relentless" new thriller from the author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Chain (Don Winslow).“Extraordinary.” -- T. J. Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Falling"You'll never go on vacation the same way ag...

  • The Detective Up Late

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 7

    Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his ba...

  • God's Away on Business

    From the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty comes the origin story of his most famous creation, Detective Sean Duffy.Belfast, 1980, is the apocalypse. Bombings, riots, army on the streets, low flying helico...

  • Hang on St. Christopher

    A Detective Sean Duffy Novel - 8

    New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty continues the Edgar Award–winning Sean Duffy series with Hang On St. Christopher.Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It’s July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still gr...

Award-Winning Books by Adrian McKinty

The Chain
2020 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
2020 Thriller Award -- Novel
The Dead Yard
2007 Audies -- Suspense
Rain Dogs
2017 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adrian McKinty has published 23 books.

The next book by Adrian McKinty, Hang on St. Christopher, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Adrian McKinty, Orange Rhymes With Everything, was published in January 1997.

Yes. Adrian McKinty has 3 series.
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