The Cold Cold Ground Audiobook (Free)

McKinty’s previous reserve, Falling Cup, was an Audible.com Best Thriller of 2011

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger attacks, riots, power slashes, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the occasions are unconnected, but then things-and people-aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy may be the man tasked with looking to get to the bottom of everything. It’s no easy job-especially when as it happens that one of the victims was mixed up in IRA but was last noticed talking about business with someone from your loyalist Ulster Volunteer Power. Add to this the fact that, like a Catholic policeman, it doesn’t matter which aspect he’s on, because nobody trusts him, and Sergeant Duffy is really in a no-win circumstance. Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cool Cold Ground is usually an excellent depiction of Belfast in the height of the Troubles-and of a cop treading a thin, thin line.