In the Morning I'll Be Gone

Gerard Doyle narrates the third in McKinty's series featuring troubled RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) policeman Sean Duffy. The story is set in 1980s Northern Ireland during the height of the sectarian violence, and Doyle's Northern Irish voices will inhabit listeners' minds long after listening. Duffy, a Catholic in the Protestant police force, is now disgraced and kicked out of the force. Just when he seems destined to go off the rails completely, he's recruited by British MI5 agents to track down an old school friend and IRA terrorist. Both writing and narration are superb in this combination of political thriller and classic locked-room mystery. C.A.T. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

January 6, 2014
The explosive conclusion to McKinty’s Troubles trilogy (after 2013’s I Hear the Sirens in the Street) combines an IRA thriller with a locked-room mystery. By late 1983, Sean Duffy has fallen on hard times. Drummed out of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, he has a chance at redemption when MI5 literally comes knocking at his door. MI5 offers Sean back his rank of detective inspector if he will find an IRA bomb maker, Dermot McCann, who broke out of prison and then trained in a Libyan camp before disappearing. Dermot’s ex-mother-in-law, Mary Fitzpatrick, agrees to reveal Dermot’s location if Sean will investigate her daughter Lizzie’s death, which the previous investigating officers were certain was an accident, because, after all, Lizzie was alone in a locked pub when she died. Though it’s the end of the trilogy, readers will hope that this won’t be the last they see of Sean Duffy. Agent: Bob Mecoy, Creative Book Services.