Adrian McKinty Knihy

Rachel pred chvíľou vysadila svoju jedinú dcéru Kylie na autobusovej zastávke a mieri na onkologické vyšetrenie. Vzápätí jej zavolá neznáma žena a vysvetlí situáciu. Niekto im uniesol syna, a ak ho chcú späť, musia uniesť iné dieťa a donútiť jeho rodičov k rovnakému zločinu. Voľba padla na Kylie. V tejto chvíli ju väznia na neznámom mieste. Rachel má dvadsaťštyri hodín, aby si vytypovala vhodnú obeť, uniesla ju a prinútila jej blízkych postupovať rovnako. V opačnom prípade Kylie zomrie. Odteraz je Rachel ohnivkom reťaze siahajúcej hlboko do minulosti. Tá sa za žiadnych okolností nesmie pretrhnúť.

Mala to byť obyčajná rodinná dovolenka, všetko však zmení strašná nehoda. 24-ročná Heather sa vydá za 44-ročného Toma, ovdoveného lekára s malým synom a dospievajúcou dcérou. Pracovná dovolenka v zámorí sa zdá byť dokonalým spôsobom, ako dať novú rodinu dokopy. Keď objavia odľahlý ostrov, ktorý je pre vonkajších návštevníkov zakázaný, využijú šancu na dobrodružstvo ďaleko od dosahu mobilov a sociálnych sietí. Len čo však vkročia na ostrov, ktorý riadi klan miestnych obyvateľov, všetko sa začne kaziť. Šokujúce nešťastie, útek cez rozpálený ostrov, vraždy. Teraz je na Heather, aby zachránila seba aj deti. Aj keď jej neveria, drsný buš je plný nebezpečenstva a miestni chcú, aby zomrela. Heather bola celý život podceňovaná, no teraz vie, že len ona dokáže svoju rodinu priviesť opäť domov. Aj keď to znamená urobiť nemysliteľné. Lebo nikdy neviete čoho ste schopní, až pokiaľ niekto neohrozí vašu rodinu.

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

Sean Duffy knows there's no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase is pretty close. Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his last case, is ready to follow the trail of blood - however faint - that always connects a body to its killer.

In a 1981 Northern Ireland rife with sectarian violence, Catholic detective Sean Duffy investigates a serial killer who is targeting gay men--a series of murders that may have political implications as well.

A mysterious suicide and double murder are at the heart of this powerful thriller set in Northern Ireland amidst the Troubles, from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty "McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history..." --Library Journal (starred review) 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 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 his undoing.

In this intensely riveting, action-packed novel, "virtuoso mayhem machine" (Booklist) Michael Forsythe returns to his native Ireland -- where a dangerous and beautiful old flame causes way more trouble than he bargained for. Running hotel security at a resort in Lima, Peru, Michael has been lying low and staying out of trouble -- until two Colombian hit men hold him at gunpoint, and force him to take a call from his ex-lover, Bridget Callaghan. At that moment she offers him a terrible choice: come to Ireland and find my daughter, or my men will kill you -- now. Once in Dublin, in the span of a single day, Michael penetrates the heart of an IRA network, escapes his own kidnapping, and then worms his way into a sinister criminal underground in search of the missing girl. But before the day is out, Michael once again finds himself face-to-face with his kidnappers -- as well as the lovely and murderous Bridget. There he must confront a series of shocking truths about himself -- and do whatever it takes to stay alive.

In this gripping installment of the Sean Duffy detective series by Adrian McKinty, Detective Inspector Duffy navigates the tumultuous 1990s in Northern Ireland. As he investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl, he uncovers a dark underworld, raising the stakes for himself and his loved ones. Will he survive this final case?

"As he investigates a bizarre killing with an unusual weapon, Detective Sean Duffy only narrowly escapes becoming the next victim of the sinister underworld of 1980s Belfast"--Provided by publisher.

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?