Adrian McKinty
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Edgar & Theakston Award winning Irish writer. Wrote the NY Times best sellers The Chain, The Island et al... La chair est triste et j’ai lu tous les livres.
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Kramer learns the mistake of underestimating Ukraine
(the famous Seinfeld Risk game from episode 98)
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16 yrs after my debut crime novel & 2 1/2 yrs after I quit writing for good I made the NYT best seller list today.
I know I am very lucky; but to every struggling writer out there I say this: sometimes luck happens, so please try to hang in there as long as you possibly can.
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just stepped outside for a moment
& apparently ended up in Narnia
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the kind of cold rainy night in New York when the cop cars zoom by & helicopters are low & bars are full of pple watching baseball & college football & there's a long line at the taco truck & when you get back inside you make coffee & open the window & the noir just writes itself
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one of the most astonishing things I saw this year was Paul McCartney conjuring a classic song from out of the nothingness before our v eyes in Peter Jackson's brilliant doc Get Back
Ringo & George are 🫤 - cos he did this shit all the bloody time
#HappyBirthdayPaulMcCartney
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if you care about Kyiv and Ukraine I don't think its very responsible to post photographs of Ukrainian infantry and/or armour next to easily identifiable landmarks
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"Not to be unkind, but Adrian is very much an acquired taste. He's not an airport author and never will be."
- acquisitions editor, 2016
Ottawa International Airport, yesterday:
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Wow just heard the news that I won the 2020 International Thriller Award for best hardback novel. I am so moved and excited about this!
I've attached a little speech that thanks everyone who helped me get here and that addresses some of the bigger issues facing our community..🙂
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I take this lower back pillow w me every day to the New York Public Library Reading Room
when I got back from the bathroom yesterday someone had left a note at my desk that said simply
"the ship was fine when she left here"
🙂👊
if you know you know
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if you've never read John Le Carre who sadly passed away yesterday
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the place to start
as good as the BBC TV & recent film adaptation is neither comes close to capturing the brilliance of this book, quite simply the greatest spy novel ever written...
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after seeing Back To The Future,
explaining to Sophie what a phonebook was...
Sophie (incredulous): People actually doxxed themselves?
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its official
the Edgar Award winning Sean Duffy series
will return 08/08/23
in hardback & audio from Blackstone Books
available in all good (& some evil) bookstores & online
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throw out your books Marie Kondo said, why wd you ever need more than 20 books in your house?
oh, I dunno, maybe it's a pandemic & you can't go outside for weeks & you're stuck in your house w the kids & everyone wants a little distraction from the world?
the answer: BOOKS 🙂
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This continues to be an amazing ride!
2 years ago I was broke, homeless & an ex writer.
The Chain is now a bestseller for a 2nd week in the UK, US & Australia.
Struggling writers out there please listen:
I got lucky & you might too.
Never, ever, ever give up on your dream.
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after a LONG Covid lockdown my sister's pub re-opens this Friday
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Seven hours from now it’s going to be packed with joggers but for now I have the central park reservoir all to myself
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as a wee kid looking for books in Belfast Central Library they cd tell by the weird glint in my eyes that I wd devour The Shining, Carrie, Salems Lot
to have
@stephenking
read my own books years later is the biggest f thrill & to have him like them too is bloody amazing 🙂
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ooh look what just came in the mail...
HUGE thank you to the Australian Crime Writers Association
@auscrimewriters
for the gorgeous Ned Kelly Award For Best International Crime Novel of 2020
gonna be pride of place on the old bookshelf, THANK YOU!
drinks on me, mates...
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from GQ's take on the 21 most overrated novels. that 2nd sentence...😬
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hang in there struggling writers
after 16 yrs as a novelist, this July
I did my 1st ever UK book tour
Finally got a Sunday Times (UK) best seller
Finally got a NYT best seller
Got a shout out on the Tonight Show
Got a full page review in New York Times:
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just by the graphic design of the posters I can tell these films are going to be cool
The Batman coming in March
The Northman coming in April
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Back home in Carrick for a brief ‘summer’ visit. It’s freezing, it’s pouring, sea spray is coming off the Lough, the streets are flooding, the air is full of peat smoke & everyone is grumpy - in other words it’s the perfect conditions to begin writing a Sean Duffy novel. 🙂
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the FedEx man just dropped off the first new Sean Duffy novel in 4 years & the first hardback ever
I asked if it cd be raining on the cover (as an echo of the first para of the first book) & it IS raining & the individual rain drops are embossed 🙂
thank you
@BlackstoneAudio
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Celebrating my first ever appearance on the Sunday Times best seller list with proper respect.
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4 July, Yankee Stadium, Nathan’s hot dog, sauerkraut, mustard
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🎅📽️
I saw DIE HARD in a cinema off Times Sq in NYC. It was my 1st time in America & before I'd only seen films in Belfast where you'd get shushed for laughing too loud.
To be in an audience gradually going nuts w excitement, yelling advice to John, booing Hans etc. was AWESOME
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I am v honoured that The Chain has won the 2020 Barry Award for best thriller of the year
at virtual Bouchercon
(kids mocked up an award from my old Barry and a book cover; kitty insisted on being in pic)
thank you judges, readers, Don, Shane & all
@littlebrown
&
@orionbooks
!
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10 years ago today I began a new writing project. I'd been told no one wanted to read about the Troubles & when I wrote these lines I had no idea about a plot or a lead. All I knew was that this was evidently Belfast in 1981.
Now I'm up to book
#8
of the Sean Duffy series. 🙂
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obviously there are bigger fish to fry, but I care about writing and its a bit of a bummer today that the first person from Belfast ever to win a screenwriting Oscar is a non story pretty much everywhere
🫤
well, I'm pleased anyway...
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It only took 15 years of trying but as of today I'm officially now a Sunday Times best seller in hardback and paperback
if you haven't read The Chain its today's deal of the day on in the ebook version...
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joking aside this is p f amazing: I have the
#1
best selling book in the United Kingdom.
I've worked hard to get here but this was a team effort.
HUGE thanks to EVERYONE
@orion_crime
@orionbooks
& my bros: Shane Salerno
@donwinslow
@akhtron
& my loyal readers
YES!!!!!!
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some news for fans of the Sean Duffy series
08/08/23
☘️🎵 🔥🚔 👊
more details here:
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reading Raymond Chandler is a slow business because every other page or so you just have to stop where you are and marvel at the prose
this is from Farewell My Lovely
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in the last few months
a whale in the Hudson River
a coyote in Central Park
& now dolphins in the East River
I like this rewilding of New York
🙂
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well, I have to break my twitter exile for this news...
THE 12 BEST THRILLERS OF 2023
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I'm not one of those men who falls apart when his wife heads out of town.
I know exactly how to provide for my family...
Heinz cream of tomato soup + white bread
the food of the gods...
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Feel like I’m finally starting to live my best life here in Southern California starting w tacos and beer for breakfast 🙂
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&, er, speaking of Sean Duffy...
delighted to say that
THE DETECTIVE UP LATE has been shortlisted for the
2024 BARRY AWARD for Best Novel
thank you to the Barry judges and to the readers who nagged the shit out of me for 4 years on this platform to write this book!
Sláinte
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*wow*
@AlanJParks
in the
@guardian
names Sean Duffy as one of the 10 greatest fictional cops of all time
Thank you Guardian Books! Thank you Alan!
It wd be remiss of me not to point out that there's a new Duffy coming 08/08/23 from
@BlackstoneAudio
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If you want to celebrate yr Irish heritage this weekend, instead of drinking until you blackout how about reading a LIVING Irish writer. Ireland punches above its weight in every lit genre & its novelists, poets, playwrights, s/writers journalists etc. need your support. Slainte.
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look what just blew in on the steel breeze: my Thriller Award for best novel; its lovely; huge thanks to:
@thrillerwriters
@KJHoweAuthor
S Salerno
@littlebrown
@orion_crime
@donwinslow
@kendalljosh
@akhtron
@MarkBillingham
@SSCav
@MegGardiner1
@atticalocke
@valmcdermid
et alia !
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Alan Arkin
RIP...
so many frickin classics
Catch 22
The Russians Are Coming
The In Laws
The Seven Per Cent Solution
Glengarry Glen Ross
Grosse Point Blank
Little Miss Sunshine
etc. etc.
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the Sean Duffy novels came out in the US as pbk originals w no book launches, no book tours & a handful of reviews
but thanks to word of mouth by READERS & LIBRARIANS they somehow found an audience, got shortlisted for 3 Edgar Awards & won 1
🙏 🙂
Duffy returns 08/08/23
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the literary fiction types will shit on us as usual but crime fiction will save the book shops that sell their stuff
like we always do
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this one was a long time coming...
its publication day of The Detective Up Late
Amazon:
Barnes:
most indy US bookstores & libraries
in the UK/Ire:
@NOALIBISBOOKS
,
@Thesecretbooks1
&, ofc, audible...
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back in Ireland for the first time in two years
checked in on my mum
saw about half of the extended family
walked the dog
and then walked down to my sister's pub to mooch a couple of pints...
🙂🙂🙂
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they told me that no one wants to read about a Northern Irish cop in the 1980s
& they were right
but I've written another one of the bastards anyway
the Edgar Award winning Sean Duffy series returns Aug 8
Amazon:
Barnes:
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Wow - on taxi way at Dublin airport. We didn’t win the
@jimmyfallon
show but my goodness it was a close run thing! HUGE thanks to everyone who voted for me and The Chain. You guys are the greatest!!!!!😀👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 slainte...
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ahh this chilly afternoon has become...
GEORGE MCFLY DAY 🙂
w arrival of galleys of THE ISLAND
my first new book in 2 yrs
a standalone based on a true incident & a kind of thematic sequel to THE CHAIN
this was so much fun to write & hopefully will be to read!
(🐈 ofc ❤️📦)
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on the upside if you're a political thriller writer I expect you won't be reading
"this is a bit too far fetched" in any of your book reviews anytime soon
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"Your pitch didn't work. Take my advice, son, set your books in Scotland...or Stockholm. Nobody in Ireland wants to read about N Ireland. Nobody in England wants to read about N Ireland & certainly no one in America wants to read about N Ireland."
- BBC executive to me 2007
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I'm really honoured & effing delighted to have won this year's Best International Fiction Ned Kelly Award for The Chain!
Thank you so much to the judges, to
#AustCrimeWriters
to all my readers and of course Shane, Don, Emad, Josh & everyone who kicked my arse to write this book.
Congratulations to Adrian McKinty for his novel The Chain, the winner of the 2020 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction! Ongoing recognition to all our shortlisted international authors.
@adrianmckinty
#AdrianMcKinty
#TheChain
#NedKellyAwards
#AustCrimeWriters
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if you have basic cable and you're in N America
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER has just begun on BBC America
IMHO its the best Tom Clancy adaptation w arguably the best Jack Ryan, Alec Baldwin
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just...
wow...
The Chain had been named one of Time Magazine's Best Books of 2019
I'm in the same category with
@MarlonJames5
@SalmanRushdie
(both of whom I interviewed this year)
@TaNehisiCoats
&
@MargaretAtwood
(!)
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the best Irish Christmas movie is, somewhat ironically,
In Bruges (2008)
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just a reminder when adding up your books of the year
AUDIOBOOKS COUNT
it's real "reading", in fact your focus might be even more intent on the words of an audio than when you fly through a regular book book
*sorry*
pet peeve of mine against pple who say its not real reading
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In 1980 I was so obsessed by the novels of Ursula Le Guin that I wrote to her & she wrote back to me in Carrickfergus
this May on book tour in Portland I made a pilgrimage to the late Ms Le Guin's home on Thurman St & said a wee prayer of thanks for making me a reader & a writer
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The Sunday Times today picks its 100 greatest novels of the 21st century but to "cast the net as wide as possible" they exclude dozens of the greatest novels of the 21st century...I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, chaps...
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shocked & delighted to have hit the trifecta...
the New York Times hardback, paperback & mass market best seller list
😲😲😲😲😲
a wee word to strugglingly writers:
HANG IN THERE
my "overnight success" took 18 years and 13 books
😉
Congratulations to
@adrianmckinty
for THE CHAIN making the
@nytimes
mass market bestseller list.
This follows multi-week appearances for The Chain on the hardcover list -and- paperback list.
The Chain will soon be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures/Working Title.
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I reckon I'm too old/lazy to go to a new social media platform now
I guess I'll stay on twitter & go down w the ship
soon I'll lose my blue check but you'll be able to tell its me cos who else wd curate you a tedious feed of obscure poems & music & B road names in Carrickfergus
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whoa...
this was a shock!
huge thank you to
@JennaBushHager
for recommending the Sean Duffy series this morning on the
@TODAYshow
!
Jenna, please tell your dad there are 3 more Duffy books on the way...
& again thank you!
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in all honesty the original concept was for a standalone called The Cold Cold Ground
I'd been assured the book wd flop cos no one wd want to read about a Catholic cop in Belfast during the Troubles
then the series became a trilogy
then a sextet
book 7 comes out in 8 weeks...
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Jamie Dornan played rugby for Ulster, he's charming, funny, ridiculously good looking (tho no more so than your average guy from Belfast, ahem)
his dad delivered 3 of my sister's kids (the 3 good ones) & he'd be a great Sean Duffy
anyway check out his fun new show THE TOURIST
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Sunday morning ritual of reading the New York Times in a diner is even nicer when you’re in the paper and they’re saying nice things about your new book 🙂
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I think the only thing this proves is that it's not about the suit, or filling the suit...
the tallest Batman was Ben Affleck at 6' 3"
the shortest Michael Keaton at 5' 8"
heaviest was Affleck at 225 lbs
lightest Keaton at 158 lbs
(from the Economist)
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I've not quit twitter but I wont be here much anymore as trolls, ads & glitches have made this site hard to take
when I do tweet it'll be my usual nerdy stuff: poetry & philosophy
otherwise I'll take Wittgenstein's advice
"whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent"
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I've interviewed a lot of writers over the years & the one thing they all have in common is this: really good writers are really good readers. It's as simple as that.
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I've read 20+ new novels so far this year & I stand by a claim I've made before: posh writers can't write working class characters. They've no ear for the dialogue or the thoughts, dreams & psychology of working class people. Many reviewers miss this because they're posh too.
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SoCal breakfast today is my first ever In-N-Out burger
Big 👍
😊
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Last look at the ocean before heading back east…gosh it’s nice here,
stay classy San Diego…
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to reiterate
British & Irish crime fiction is undergoing a renaissance - it's diverse, intelligent, bursting w ideas & a vector for examining imp social issues as well as providing a venue for pure escapism.
if you're not a crime fiction reader this is a great time to begin
🙂
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that settles it, I'm writing another Sean Duffy novel
the universe just keeps giving me too much material
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when finishing off a manuscript it's important to have a first reader that you really trust
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working on a Sean Duffy novel this morning & s'times you come across a fact that has to go in the book:
this is Sawel Mountain in the Sperrins
in Irish it's known as Samhail Phite Méabha
which means "Maeve's vulva looks like this"
- half a page of dialogue in that, surely...
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you should read American contemporary crime fiction simply because you enjoy it
but if you're s'one who refuses to read it out of snobbery I feel you are missing out on an important vector for working class voices & stories that literary fiction doesn't really seem to cover
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Really honoured that the Sean Duffy series is on this list from
@CrimeReads
.
The Duffy books were always the little engine that could. No book launches, no book tours, no ads, just word of mouth from reader to reader. Thank you so much Sean Duffy fans!
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new
New York Times bestseller list and yes I'm completely gobsmacked to have the
#6
best selling book in America
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.
@SteveMartinToGo
& Martin Short are filming a TV show in the building next door to ours...
...guys, we're having spaghetti if you don't fancy the craft services & want to come over...
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Plum Island, Massachusetts
1 hour ago
this is the exact spot where scene 1 chapter 1 of The Chain takes place
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Sean Duffy 7
The Detective Up Late
cover & epigraph page
coming 08/08/2023
(& for those of you who like audiobooks - I talked to Doyle yesterday & he's on board...)
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coming soon
all new editions of the Sean Duffy series
the same craic, shootouts & long Tom Waits titles
in pbk & (for the 1st time) hardback
it's not raining on all of the covers, but it is Belfast so it is raining in most of them
😉🙂
more details:
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this finally feels real
a galley of the new Sean Duffy novel in my grubby paws at last 🙂
I don't know how other writers come up w chapter titles but for me it seems to be a blend of stuff actually from the chapter, in jokes & stuff I just like
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The Chain paperback will debut on next week's New York Times bestseller list. This is my 1st time ever on the pbk bestseller list & I'm SO excited!
Huge thank you to all my readers & reviewers
& to Shane,
@donwinslow
everyone at
@mulhollandbooks
@littlebrown
&
@HachetteUS
🙂 🤎
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for 4 years you lot nagged me to write another Sean Duffy novel
I did
it comes out in less than a week
08/08/23
is it any good?
only one way to find out...
Amazon:
Barnes:
& all good & most evil bookshops...
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