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  • Gun Street Girl

  • Detective Sean Duffy, Book 4
  • By: Adrian McKinty
  • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
  • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (195 ratings)
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Gun Street Girl

By: Adrian McKinty
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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Summary

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.

Critic reviews

  • Shortlisted for the 2016 Audie Award (Best Mystery) and the 2016 Edgar Award (Best Pbk Original)

"When it comes to Northern Irish crime fiction, Adrian McKinty forged the path the rest of us follow. The Sean Duffy series is the culmination of a career spent examining our darkest moments, and McKinty is the only crime writer who can do justice to our singular history." (Stuart Neville, author of The Final Silence)

"Series fans will appreciate the further insight into the fallout from tragic cases, department politics, and war. As usual, there's plenty of entertaining territorial battling between the dizzying array of law-enforcement agencies acting in Belfast, and Duffy's investigative skills seem somehow sharpened by his lost hope." (Booklist)

"Gerard Doyle gives a stunning narration of the fourth installment of McKinty's Detective Sean Duffy series.... From the subtle changes in dialect to McKinty's distinct writing cadence and dark humor, Doyle hones in on the details that make this procedural a joy to listen to." (AudioFile)

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GREAT

The best listen a while. The narrator was great the best iv heard. A fab read. This is one book I definitely recommend.

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Superb

Excellent series, highly recommend it.
Great mix of fact and fiction.
Well done Adrian McKinty!

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Terrific

Great story - the narrator is sublime - and the characters entertaining. I'm going back to start this series again, it's so good.

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Another excellent Sean Duffy Yarn

Perfect blend of fictional story with actual historical events during the s••t storm that was the NI troubles of the 80s. Normally I would run a mile from novels about this time in our history but Adrian McKinty covers both sides of the argument with sympathy and no little knowledge. Narration is also excellent by Gerard Doyle and believable apart from the odd dodgy NI place name pronunciation.

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Odd mistakes

The story and narration is as good as ever . . . apart from some clumsy mistakes, presumably by the narrator. Duffy’s rank varies between Sergeant and Chief Inspector. And when Duffy et al drive to see Connelly they set off in a police Land Rover and arrive in Duffy’s BMW. Irritating.

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Best one yet

This series has been consistently brilliant so far - great protagonist in Sean Duffy, an unputdownable story, a gritty 1980s Northern Ireland setting and sharp witty narrative. Gun Street Girl is the best so far and the bar was already high!

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awesome great. story, great humour, great voice

very good delivery, great story . love the humour. don't like the fact that he's a commie but it just shows you that all police in EU are commie.

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Excellent in every way

I absolutely love these books. Detective Shaun Duffy is a brilliant and disgraceful character, the way the stories weave in and out of real life events adds an interesting dimension.
Massive credit to the reader, who brings all of the characters to life, and even manages an authentic sounding Birmingham accent,to a rarely achieved feat, see Peaky Blinders.
I can’t recommend it too, highly

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Superb writing, superb narration

I hate when I’ve just finished a Duffy story. I wish I had it unlistened to so I could hear it afresh.

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Great story and really terrific reading

I could listen to these engaging stories with this wonderful voice all day long! McKinty has a superb mix of drama, humour and poetic lyrical writing that is a delight.

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