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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1997
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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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)

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: 21 titles



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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 -...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



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

     



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • "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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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...



  • 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...


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 21 books.

Adrian McKinty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Detective Up Late, was published in August 2023.

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

Yes. Adrian McKinty has 3 series.