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  • 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 grinding on...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 again....



  • 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...



  • Another thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy and his most dangerous investigation yet 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 is respons...



  • Rain Dogs, a stunning installment in the Sean Duffy thriller series, following the Edgar Award-nominated Gun Street Girl, is "another standout in a superior series" (Booklist). It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, ...



  • Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point-blan...



  • 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 b...






  • A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland It's the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5...



  • 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 ...



  • McKinty's previous book, Falling Glass, was an Audible.com Best Thriller of 2011  Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman's suicide that may y...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 sequel to The Lighthouse Land is "better than the first . . . nonstop action."*



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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 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 -...



  • 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...



  • 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....


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adrian McKinty has published 23 books.

Adrian McKinty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hang on St. Christopher, was 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.