Adrian McKinty has 19 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 780 ratings. The most-rated is The Chain.
The Chain
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Victim. Survivor. Abductor. Criminal. You will become each one. "This nightmarish story is incredibly propulsive and original. You won't shake it for a long time." (Stephen King) "McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the scene in years. His plots tempt you to read at top speed, but don't give in: this writing - sharply observant, intelligent and shot through with black humor - should be savored." (Tana French) "A masterpiece. You have never read anything quite like The Chain and you will never be able to forget it." (Don Winslow) 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 kidnap another child. If any of these things don't happen: Your child will be killed. You are now part of the chain. "You are not the first. And you will certainly not be the last."
©2019 Adrian McKinty (P)2019 Hachette Audio
The Cold, Cold Ground
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Adrian McKinty was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He studied politics and philosophy at Oxford before moving to America in the early 1990s. Living first in Harlem, he found employment as a construction worker, barman, and bookstore clerk. In 2000 he moved to Denver to become a high school English teacher and it was there that he began writing fiction. In 2009 he moved to Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and two children. His first full-length novel, Dead I Well May Be, was short-listed for the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and its sequel, The Dead Yard, was selected as one of the twelve best novels of the year by Publishers Weekly. In 2008 his debut young adult novel, The Lighthouse Land, was short-listed for the 2008 Young Hoosier Award and the 2008 Beehive Award. The final novel in the Dead trilogy, The Bloomsday Dead, was long-listed for the 2009 World Book Day Award. In 2011 Falling Glass was an Audible.com Best Thriller.
©2012 Adrian McKinty (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Gun Street Girl
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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-blank range and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where a cabinet minister's daughter died of a heroin overdose, which may or may not have something to do with Kelly's subsequent death. New evidence leads elsewhere: gun runners, arms dealers, the British government, and a rogue American agent with a fake identity. Duffy thinks he's getting somewhere when agents from MI5 show up at his doorstep and try to recruit him, thus taking him off the investigation. Duffy is in it up to his neck, doggedly pursuing a case that may finally prove to be his undoing.
©2015 Adrian McKinty (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
I Hear the Sirens in the Street
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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 U.S. 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 senseof 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.
©2013 Adrian McKinty (P)2013 Blackstone Audio
In the Morning I'll Be Gone
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Winner of the 2014 Ned Kelly Award and a 2015 Audie Award nominee for best mystery 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 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot's whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the "locked-room mystery", the bigger mystery of Dermot's whereabouts might be revealed to him as a reward. Meanwhile the clock is ticking down to the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in 1984, where Mrs. Thatcher is due to give a keynote speech.
©2014 Adrian McKinty (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Rain Dogs
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Edgar Award winner, Best Paperback Original, 2017. 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, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career? When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep the case file open, which is how he finds out that Bigelow was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond. And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: Who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?
©2016 Adrian McKinty (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Hidden River
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Alexander Lawson is a former detective for Northern Ireland's police force. After a disastrous six-month stint in the drug squad, he became addicted to heroin and resigned in disgrace. Now 24, sickly, and on the dole, Alex learns that his high-school love, Victoria Patawasti, has been murdered in America. Victoria's wealthy family sends Alex to Colorado to investigate the case, and he seizes the opportunity for a chance at redemption. But things don't go as planned. Plagued by a heroin habit, forced to go on the run after the only credible witness to Victoria's murder is accidentally killed, wanted by both the Colorado cops and the Ulster police, Alex struggles just to stay alive. Gritty, with spot-on dialogue and black humor, Hidden River is a dynamic thriller.
©2004 Adrian McKinty (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks
The Dead Yard
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In this exciting sequel to the acclaimed Dead I Well May Be, the mercenary Michael Forsythe is forced to infiltrate an Irish terrorist cell, confronting murder, mayhem, and the prospect of his own execution. Michael is on holiday in Spain when a soccer riot between the Paddies and the Brits escalates out of control and he winds up in a Spanish prison. Enter Samantha, a beautiful British Intelligence agent. She makes Michael an offer he can't refuse: instead of extradition to Mexico to serve time for a prison break, he can infiltrate an IRA sleeper cell in the United States. Thrust into the nightmare world of men known for their distinctive brands of torture and revenge, Michael crosses and double-crosses key players, narrowly escapes his own lies, loses his only ally, and falls for the daughter of his enemy.
©2006 Adrian McKinty (P)2006 Blackstone Audiobooks
Falling Glass
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Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest. But then, for some reason, his ex-wife Rachel doesn’t keep her side of the custody agreement and vanishes off the face of the earth with Richard’s two daughters. Richard hires Killian, a formidable ex-enforcer for the IRA, to track her down before Rachel, a recovering drug addict, harms herself or the girls. As Killian follows Rachel’s trail, he begins to see that there is a lot more to this case than first meets the eye and that a 30-year-old secret is going to put all of them in terrible danger. Falling Glass is an Audible.com Best Thriller of 2011.
©2011 Adrian McKinty (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Fifty Grand
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An illegal immigrant is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten. Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across the border, barely escaping with her life. She finds work as a maid and, secretly, begins to investigate the death of her father. But she isn't a maid, and she's not Mexican. She's Detective Mercado, a police officer from Havana, and she's looking for answers to her father's death. McKinty's live-wire prose is riveting, right up to a final, shocking conclusion.
©2009 Barron's Educational Series, Inc. (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Bloomsday Dead
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In this concluding book of Adrian McKinty's highly praised Dead series, Michael Forsythe confronts his former lover and archrival, Bridget, a New York Irish Mob boss. Michael has survived his infiltration of an IRA splinter cell in Boston, and now, his many near fatal wounds healed, he begins his next adventure as manager of hotel security in Lima, Peru. It is there that he is contacted by Bridget, whose fiancé he killed. Bridget, calling from Dublin, says that her 11-year-old daughter has been kidnapped. Michael's choice is to fly to Dublin and help her find the girl, or be executed at the hands of Bridget's goons, who are holding him at gunpoint. He agrees to nothing, but is soon on the way to Dublin, leaving the first two of many dead bodies in his wake.
©2007 Adrian McKinty (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.
Dead I Well May Be
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"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 Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. But young Michael is strong and fearless and clever, just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month. Michael and his lads tumble through the streets, shaking down victims, drinking hard, and fighting for turf, block by bloody block. Dodgy and observant, not to mention handy with a pistol, Michael is soon anointed by Darkey as his rising star. Meanwhile Michael has very inadvisably seduced Darkey's girl, Bridget, saucy, fickle, and irresistible. Michael worries that he's being followed, that his affair with Bridget will be revealed. He's right to be anxious; when Darkey discovers the affair, he plans a very hard fall for young Michael, a gambit devilish in its guile, murderous in its intent. But Darkey fails to account for Michael's toughness and ingenuity or the possibility that he might wreak terrible vengeance upon those who would betray him. A natural storyteller with a gift for dialogue, McKinty introduces to readers a stunning new noir voice, dark and stylish, mythic and violent, complete with an Irish lilt.
©2003 Adrian McKinty (P)2004 Blackstone Audiobooks
Rain Dogs
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Unruhen bekämpfen, Herzschmerz und Fälle aufklären, die aber nicht vor Gericht gebracht werden dürfen, darin ist Sean Duffy als katholischer Bulle in Nordirland inzwischen Spezialist. Immerhin bekommt er es zum zweiten Mal in seiner Karriere mit einem "locked room mystery" zu tun, und welcher Bulle - in Nordirland oder sonstwo, katholisch oder nicht - kann das schon von sich behaupten? Die Journalistin Lily Bigelow wird im Hof von Carrickfergus Castle, wo sie sich allem Anschein nach über Nacht hat einschließen lassen, tot aufgefunden. Selbstmord, glaubt man, aber ein paar Dinge geben Sean Duffy zu denken, und er weigert sich, es dabei zu belassen. Duffy findet heraus, dass Bigelow an einer verheerenden Enthüllung in Sachen Korruption und Amtsmissbrauch innerhalb der höchsten Regierungskreise Großbritanniens und darüber hinaus gearbeitet hat. Und so sieht er sich mit zwei schwerwiegenden Problemen konfrontiert: Wer hat Lily Bigelow umgebracht? Und was wollte er oder sie damit vertuschen?>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2017 Suhrkamp Verlag AG. Übersetzung von Peter Torberg (P)2017 Audible Studios
Die Sirenen von Belfast
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Der prüfende Blick unter den Wagen gehört zu Sean Duffys Morgenritual. Im Nordirlandkonflikt stehen Autobombenanschläge auf der Tagesordnung, und als katholischer Bulle ist er die perfekte Zielscheibe der IRA. Als er und sein Kollege McCrabban auf einem verlassenen Firmengelände in Belfast einen tiefgekühlten Torso finden, ist für ihre Vorgesetzten die Sache klar: Der Konflikt hat ein weiteres Todesopfer gefordert. Wie immer glaubt Duffy nicht an einfache Lösungen und gräbt tiefer. Eine heiße Spur führt ihn in die USA, doch als sich in Nordirland die Lage zuspitzt, wird Duffy plötzlich das wahre Ausmaß des Falles klar...>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2015 Suhrkamp Verlag AG. Übersetzung von Peter Torberg (P)2017 Audible Studios
Der katholische Bulle
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Belfast befindet sich im Ausnahmezustand. Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy ist neu in der Stadt, und gleich bei seinem ersten Fall - der Suche nach einem Serienkiller - muss er sich ins Zentrum des Terrors begeben. Sean Duffy ist wahrscheinlich der einzige katholische Bulle in ganz Nordirland, denn es ist 1981, und "katholisch sein" steht vor allem für eines: IRA. Die Paramilitärs haben der Polizei den Krieg erklärt, nehmen sie, wo es nur geht, unter Beschuss, jagen Polizeiautos in die Luft. Ihnen gilt Duffy als Verräter. Doch auch unter den Kollegen in Carrickfergus, einem Vorort von Belfast, wohin er nach seiner Beförderung gerade erst versetzt wurde, muss sich der junge Polizist sein Ansehen erkämpfen. Entlang der Frontlinien ermittelt Duffy in zwei Mordfällen, hinter denen ein Serienkiller zu stecken scheint. Eines der Opfer stand in Verbindung mit den höchsten IRA-Kreisen, wo Duffy auf eine Mauer des Schweigens trifft, da jeder, der den Mund aufmacht, mit dem Schlimmsten rechnen muss...>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2014 Suhrkamp Verlag AG (P)2016 Audible Studios
Gun Street Girl
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Das wohlhabende Ehepaar Kelly wird brutal ermordet. Kurz darauf entdeckt man am Meeresufer die Leiche ihres Sohnes Michael. Als die Polizei auch noch auf einen Abschiedsbrief stößt, in dem Michael die Tat gesteht, wird die Akte schnell geschlossen. Aber irgendetwas scheint an der Sache faul zu sein, schon bald gibt es weitere Opfer. Duffy muss ins wenig geliebte englische Nachbarland reisen und in den elitären Kreisen von Oxford ermitteln. Stets an seiner Seite: die MI5-Agentin Kate - wertvolle Informantin und geheime Schwachstelle des katholischen Bullen. Und während sie ihm ein verlockendes Angebot macht, das sein ganzes Leben verändern könnte, gerät Duffy immer tiefer hinein in einen Fall, der ihm mächtige Gegner beschert. Zu mächtig vielleicht...>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2015 Suhrkamp Verlag AG. Übersetzung von Peter Torberg (P)2017 Audible Studios
The chain (Italian edition)
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Mi chiamo Rachel Klein e fino a pochi minuti fa ero una madre qualunque, una donna qualunque. Ma adesso sono una vittima. Una criminale. Una rapitrice. È bastato un attimo: una telefonata, un numero occultato, poche parole. Abbiamo rapito tua figlia Kylie. Segui le istruzioni. E non spezzare la Catena, oppure tua figlia morirà. La voce di questa donna che non conosco mi dice che Kylie è sulla sua macchina, legata e imbavagliata, e per riaverla non sarà sufficiente pagare un riscatto. Non è così che funziona la Catena. Devo anche trovare un altro bambino da rapire. Come ha fatto lei, la donna con cui sto parlando: una madre disperata, come me. Ha rapito Kylie per salvare suo figlio. E se io non obbedisco agli ordini, suo figlio morirà. Ho solo ventiquattro ore di tempo per fare l'impensabile. Per fare a qualcun altro ciò che è stato fatto a me: togliermi il bene più prezioso, farmi precipitare in un abisso di angoscia, un labirinto di terrore da cui uscirò soltanto compiendo qualcosa di efferato. Io non sono così, non ho mai fatto niente di male nella mia vita. Ma non ho scelta. Se voglio salvare Kylie, devo perdere me stessa.
©2019 Longanesi (P)2020 Adriano Salani Editore
Die verlorenen Schwestern
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Nordirland, 1983. Als an einem Septembertag 38 IRA-Terroristen aus einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis ausbrechen, herrscht höchste Alarmbereitschaft: Unter den Flüchtlingen befindet sich der in Libyen ausgebildete Bombenspezialist Dermot McCann. Inspector Sergeant Sean Duffy drückte mit McCann die Schulbank, weshalb mit einem Mal der MI5 vor seiner Tür steht. Duffy soll McCann finden. Er weiß: Jeden Moment könnten Bomben hochgehen, doch McCann bleibt von der Bildfläche verschwunden. Plötzlich wendet sich McCanns Ex-Schwiegermutter an Duffy. Sie will ihm helfen, allerdings nur unter einer Bedingung: Zuerst muss er das Rätsel um den Tod ihrer Tochter lösen. Vier Jahre zuvor war die Leiche der jungen Frau in einem von innen verriegelten Pub gefunden worden. Alles deutete auf einen Unfall hin, und doch ist die Mutter überzeugt, dass es Mord war. Aber wie sollte der Täter entwischt sein - bei verschlossenen Türen? Duffy ist ratlos, und die Uhr tickt...>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2015 Suhrkamp Verlag AG. Übersetzung von Peter Torberg (P)2017 Audible Studios
Dirty Cops (German edition)
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Belfast 1988: Ein Mann wird mit einem Pfeil im Rücken tot aufgefunden. Es waren wohl kaum Indianer, und auch Robin Hood dürfte als Täter nicht in Frage kommen. Und da das Opfer eh nur ein Drogendealer war, könnte man sein kurioses Dahinscheiden ruhigen Gewissens zu den Akten legen. Doch Inspector Sean Duffy tut sich schwer damit, Morde zu den Akten zu legen - auch wenn seine Vorgesetzten ihn dazu drängen und der Haussegen bei der jungen Familie Duffy gerade reichlich schief hängt. Und noch jemand möchte Duffy zum Aufgeben zwingen: Eines Nachts findet er sich im Wald wieder, wo drei bewaffnete, maskierte Gestalten ihn dazu zwingen, sein eigenes Grab auszuheben... Ein neuer Fall für Sean Duffy, den katholischen Bullen im Belfast der düsteren 80er Jahre. Gejagt von unbekannten Kräften, bedroht von internen Ermittlungen, unter Druck gesetzt von der Mutter seines Kindes, versucht er, einen der wahnwitzigsten Mordfälle seiner Laufbahn aufzuklären, ohne dabei sein eigenes Leben zu verlieren. >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2018 Suhrkamp Verlag AG. Übersetzung von Peter Torberg (P)2018 Audible Studios