New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty won an Edgar Award for this “standout in a superior series” (Booklist).
“Shot through with a smart, crackling humor that manages to be both dark and witty.”—Boston Globe
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?
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to Australia and to New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including the award-winning standalone thriller The Chain, which was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller. McKinty’s books have been translated into over forty languages, and he has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (three times), the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His novel The Island was an instant New York Times bestseller and made their “Best Thrillers of 2022” list.
Table of Contents
1. The Most Famous Man in the World2. The Theft That Wasn’t3. Lizzie Fitzpatrick Redux? 4. Mr. Underhill5. The Strange Suicide of Lily Bigelow6. The One Shoe7. Interviewing the Finns8. The Killing of the Chief Super9. Wiping the Whiteboard10. The Preliminary Autopsy Report11. Interviewing Mr. Underhill Redux12. East to the Smoke13. Jimmy Savile’s Caravan14. Kinkaid15. Tony McIlroy’s Detective Agency16. The Brothel17. Ed McBain’s Notebook18. Finlandia19. Constable Hornborg’s Story20. On the Ice21. Mercury tilt22. Closing the Net23. The Famous Carrickfergus Fifteen-Pub Crawl24. The Ministry Man25. Breaking the Case26. Lifting the Prime Suspect27. How He Did It28. The Oakman Surprises Everyone29. Kami No Itte—The Divine Move30. What Defeat Tastes Like31. It’s Not the Leaving of Liverpool That Grieves Me32. The Helsinki Times (Five Months Later)Afterword
