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Sean Duffy: Year 1 (The Sean Duffy Series)
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Gerard Doyle
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Adrian McKinty
About this listen
From the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty comes the origin story of his most famous creation, Detective Sean Duffy.
Belfast, 1980, is the apocalypse. Bombings, riots, army on the streets, low flying helicopters, and ever-present rain. The grinding Northern Irish civil war between Protestants and Catholics has been going for a decade now. Hated by both sides are the police.
Sean Duffy Year 1 takes us into that world. Newly promoted Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy is given his first command at Carrickfergus CID.
In this prequel novella, McKinty takes listeners through Duffy’s first two weeks on the job. A case to solve and a chance to impress his bosses, if, of course, he can get out of it alive.
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- By Emily S. on 05-22-22
By: Adrian McKinty
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The Chain
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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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.
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A Major Departure For McKinty
- By Graham on 07-18-19
By: Adrian McKinty
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Those We Left Behind
- The Belfast Novels
- By: Stuart Neville
- Narrated by: Michelle Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Blood has always been thicker than water for two Northern Irish brothers caught in the Belfast foster system, but a debt of past violence will be paid not just by them but also by those they left behind. Ciaran Devine, who made Belfast headlines seven years ago as the "schoolboy killer", is about to walk free. At the age of 12, he confessed to the brutal murder of his foster father; his testimony mitigated the sentence of his older brother, Thomas, who was also found at the crime scene, covered in blood.
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Belfast noir with a new female lead
- By David on 03-02-17
By: Stuart Neville
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A Man with One of Those Faces
- By: Caimh McDonnell
- Narrated by: Morgan C. Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history. Or else they’ll be history.
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Not easily pleased
- By Anna on 08-30-18
By: Caimh McDonnell
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This House of Burning Bones
- By: Stuart MacBride
- Narrated by: Steve Worsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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It’s not going well for NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave’s been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a migrant hostel and there’s a massive climate change protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to kick off a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers – AKA: DS Steel’s team – until the top brass can arrange backup from other divisions.
By: Stuart MacBride
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The Ghosts of Belfast
- By: Stuart Neville
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Fegan has been a "hard man" - an IRA killer in Northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by 12 ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. As he's working his way down the list, he encounters a woman who may offer him redemption; she has borne a child to an RUC officer and is an outsider too.
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don't judge by its cover
- By connie on 01-05-13
By: Stuart Neville
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The Guards
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana, and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. He is teetering on the brink of his life's sharpest edges, his memories of the past cutting deep into his soul and his prospects for the future non-existent.
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This is literature, not just crime fiction
- By John on 08-09-13
By: Ken Bruen
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Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy is fearful. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission. Bad Sam Chapman - head of the intelligence service’s internal security force, the Dogs - tries to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 colleague of Jaime’s lover, Miro - who has gone missing with a quarter of a billion pounds....
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worst reader ever
- By mimz on 06-25-21
By: Mick Herron
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The Librarians of Lisbon
- A WWII Story of Love and Espionage
- By: Suzanne Nelson
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Lisbon 1943. As two American librarians are drawn into a city of dangerous subterfuge and unexpected love affairs, they are forced to choose between their missions and the men they love. Inspired by real historical figures, award-winning author Suzanne Nelson pens a captivating story of two remarkable women, their bravery and heartache, and a friendship that withstands the ravages of war.
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Little historical context
- By Carolyn Berry on 04-13-25
By: Suzanne Nelson
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The Girl in the Ice
- Detective Erika Foster Crime Thriller, Book 1
- By: Robert Bryndza
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound, and dumped in water around London.
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Great detective thriller!
- By Wayne on 06-09-16
By: Robert Bryndza
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- Neil K.
- 02-05-25
Short but nails the character from the start.
Well performed, no wasted effort in the writing. Always good stuff from McKinty. Would have appreciated more fire the $.
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- A. McGlynn
- 02-06-25
A fun little backstory
A fun, low stakes novella about Sean’s first week on the job at Carrickfergus CID. It will be a great way to introduce people to the series, as In the Cold Cold Ground can be intense.
I’m a little disgusted with the “cash grab” comment in another review. Authors don’t set prices. If you want to complain about the publisher or the platform, knock yourself out. There are plenty of places to do that. Writing is a job. Doing your job is how you feed yourself and your family. It is not a “cash grab.”
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- S. Honeycutt
- 03-11-25
I wanted something ... more
I was so excited about getting to read/listen to this short little snippet of Duffy's life. (I was honestly a little appalled that it was only 1.5 hours long and Audible wanted $8+ for it--or a whole credit--but I bought it anyway.) I'm not sorry that I listened to this, but I'm not really happy that I did either.
Mostly, it was Duffy being Duffy, which is fine. I like Duffy. That's why I've listened to the whole series at least three or four times now. (I listened to the whole thing again before listening to the brand-new novel, Hang on St. Christopher this week.)
There was just something about this little story that bothered me. It kind of felt like McKinty wrote it for the money and not to really explore anything new with our favorite RUC DI. Like I said, it was Duffy being Duffy. I laughed a few times. I enjoyed seeing him move into 113 Coronation Road. But it wasn't new.
I also seem to be the outlier on this, but there's a part where Duffy takes some acid (Duffy likes his alcohol and his recreational drugs, so again, nothing new) and he talks to a dog. And then a tree. On the socials, I saw that a lot of people seemed to really enjoy that. I thought it was ridiculous and was a little peeved that so much of the 1.5 hours of the story was this scene. (However long it lasted, it was too long for me.)
Oh, well. Art is what it is. Subjective.
Gerard Doyle was aces, as usual.
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- Georgia Burns
- 02-17-25
The story was less than two hours long
My mistake for not catching that before spending a whole credit. I will be more wary in the future. I gave it the amount of stars it deserved as if it were the beginning of a decent book all the same.
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- Lavinia
- 03-16-25
Love Gerard Doyle
It’s almost impossible to not like Sean Duffy. The Troubles and Northern Ireland are an enigma. Hope that is really done and over.
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- Tanya Swann
- 02-04-25
Funny and sad as hell.
Perfection. Laughed loudly 2 or 3 different times. This touches on everything that makes this series great.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-13-25
Terrific Prequel!
Clever introduction to the incredibly good Sean Duffy series. If you haven’t read the series, start here! Then, don’t stop.
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- Daniel
- 02-19-25
Once again, a real jem
If there is one thing in this godforsaken world we live in that I genuinely like from the bottom of my heart, it is this series. And this novella is a wonderful link in the chain.
It is 2025 and I live in Israel. It doesn’t take a genius to know that my mood is terrible. It seems like death is all around here. This war has ruined my soul, but this latest edition to Sean Duffy is uplifting me. Witty, interesting, with accurate descriptions and believable dialogues. And the musical references are exactly to my taste: Johnny Mitchell, Elvis Costello, The Kinks, Cocteau Twins, Led Zeppelin, Gary Newman.
Thank you, Mr. McKinty, you have made me happy for almost 2 hours.
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- Annery MM
- 02-19-25
EARLY DUFFY
If you’re already a fan of Duffy this little amuse-bouche will tickle you pink. Where it all began. Sort of.
If you haven’t been listening to this series you’re losing out but maybe this little nugget will change that.
Gerard Doyle is absolute perfection delivering McKinty’s goodness.
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- jack ridenour
- 02-27-25
Perfect writing, balance of humor, and plenty of believable characters
Never lets me down , definitely excited for what’s in store next. I’m starting to talk with an Irish accent.
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