FICTION

Rain Dogs

by Adrian McKinty
Seventh Street: Prometheus. (Sean Duffy, Bk. 5). Mar. 2016. 315p. ISBN 9781633881303. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781633881310. MYS
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It's 1987 in Northern Ireland in the midst of the Troubles, and Sean Duffy, a 13-year veteran of the Ulster police but still a detective inspector, is confronted with a locked-room mystery. Lily Bigelow, a vibrant English journalist, has died in a fall from the heights of Carrickfergus castle; her death is ruled a suicide because the doors were locked and no one could have left. Bigelow had been accompanying a Finnish delegation looking at investment sites, but Duffy discovers that she secretly had been pursuing a tip about a pedophile ring. There are few clues, but more murders, and Duffy also has to deal with obstruction from higher levels.
VERDICT The violence of the Troubles is more in the background here than in McKinty's four award-winning previous series titles, and there are more details of Duffy's personal life. Still, it is a pleasure to be in the company of a master storyteller and stylist. McKinty uses some historical events as a basis for a strong moral point of view while still delivering a fine tale that should appeal to many levels of mystery fans.
Reviewed by Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale , Mar 18, 2016
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