If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written. Maurice Hayes * Irish Independent * McKinty (has) a razor sharp ear for the local dialogue and a feeling for the bleak time and place that was Ulster in the early Eighties, and pair them with a wry wicked wit.
There will be many readers waiting for the next adventure of the dashing and intrepid Sergeant Duffy. he manages to catch the brooding atmosphere of the 1980s and to tell a ripping yarn at the same time. McKinty has not lost his touch or his eye for the bizarre and the macabre, or his ear for the Belfast accent and argot.McKinty creates a marvellous sense of time and place. This writer is a legend in the making and The Cold, Cold Ground is the latest proof of this - Gerard Brennan Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy could well become a cult figure. Eoin McNamee * Guardian * Adrian McKinty is the voice of the new Northern Irish generation but he's not afraid to examine the past. The Cold Cold Ground is a crime novel, fast-paced, intricate and genre to the core. There's food for thought in McKinty's writing. The stories and textures may belong to a different period, but the power of technique and intent makes of them the here and now. The names of David Peace and Ellroy are evoked too often in relation to young crime writers, but McKinty shares their method of using the past as a template for the present. Be in no doubt that this novel is a masterpiece: had David Peace, Eoin McNamee and Brian Moore sat down, they would have been very pleased indeed to have written The Cold Cold Ground - Declan Burke The Cold Cold Ground is a fearless trip into Northern Ireland in the 1980s: riots, hunger strikes, murders - yet Adrian McKinty tells a very personal story of an ordinary cop trying to hunt down a serial killer' - John McFetridge McKinty's The Cold Cold Ground has got onto on my five best books of the year list as it is riveting, brilliant and just about the best book yet on Northern Ireland - Ken Bruen The Cold Cold Ground confirms McKinty as a writer of substance. A brilliant piece of work which does for NI what Peace's Red Riding Quartet did for Yorkshire - Brian McGilloway McKinty's prose is a master-class in vicious poise.
Sean Duffy is a compelling detective, the evocation of 19802 Northern Ireland is breathtaking and the atmosphere authentically menacing. Written with intelligence, insight and wit, McKinty exposes the cancer of corruption at all levels of society at that time. Adrian McKinty channels Dennis Lehane, David Peace and Joseph Wambaugh to create a brilliant novel with its own unique voice - Stuart Neville It's undoubtedly McKinty's finest. The Cold Cold Ground is a razor sharp thriller set against the backdrop of a country in chaos, told with style, courage and dark-as-night wit.
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