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    In the Morning I'll Be Gone: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel

    By Adrian McKinty

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    A Ned Kelly Award winner! Detective Sean Duffy works to crack a locked room mystery while tracking an escaped IRA master bomber. The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze Prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot’s whereabouts; she herself wants justice for her daughter who died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the "locked room mystery," the bigger mystery of Dermot’s whereabouts might be revealed to him as a reward. Meanwhile the clock is ticking down to the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton in 1984, where Mrs. Thatcher is due to give a keynote speech....
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    PublisherSeventh Street Books
    Release dateMar 4, 2014
    ISBN9781616148782
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    In the Morning I'll Be Gone: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel
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    Adrian McKinty

    Adrian McKinty is an Irish writer of crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction, best known for his 2020 award-winning thriller, The Chain, and the Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He is also the author of the Michael Forsythe trilogy and the Lighthouse trilogy. He is a winner of multiple awards including the Edgar Award, the Macavity Award, and the International Thriller Writers Award.

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    • 4/5
      1983, Belfast, The Troubles, Sean Duffy, having upset too many Important people, particularly the FBI among many, is off the force. Apparently being reduced to Sergeant wasn’t enough and he was forced off with the offer of a full pension. “I went to the dole office and they told me that there was no point signing on. With my retirement money coming in I would be means tested and would not be eligible for any other kind of income support. The unemployment officer told me I should move to Spain or Greece or Thailand or someplace where my monthly check from the RUC would go a long way.”Wallowing in despair Duffy is approached by MI5 to assist them in finding Dermot McCann, IRA master bomber who had escaped from the Maze prison, whereabouts currently unknown. Duffy is chosen because of two things, he knows McCann from when they were at High school together and he’s very good and what he does. Duffy negotiates a return to his old position Detective Inspector but under the banner of Special Branch. Duffy’s time away from the forces has not mellowed him. He still has issues with 80’s music. “Before I put the key in the ignition I got out again and looked underneath the vehicle for mercury tilt bombs. There were none, and I re-entered and stuck in a cassette of Robert Plant’s Principle of Moments. This was my fourth listen to Plant’s solo album and I still couldn’t bring myself to like it. It was all synthesizers, drum machines, and high-pitched vocals. It was a sign of the times, and with the autumn upon us it was safe to say that 1983 was turning out to be the worst year in popular music for about two decades.”He still drinks far too much and enjoys the not so occasional spliff.Interviewing all of McCann’s relatives brings him in contact with McCann’s ex-wife Anne and her Mother. The mother offers to help located McCann if Duffy can solve the mystery of her younger daughters’ Lizzies death. The trouble is that it is the classic ‘closed room’ murder. The body was found inside a locked room, locked and bolted from the inside. Solve the mystery and get McCann, simple.With M15 pressuring him for results and the complex mystery of the locked room proving to be a stumbling block, finding McCann tales on even more urgency as the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton 1984 is coming up fast. Mrs Thatcher, fresh from the Falklands victory is giving the key note speech and is a prime IRA target. McKinty has delivered a complex and enthralling mystery. How will it all play out, remember your history, all is not what it seems.
    • 5/5
      This is an Irish noir detective novel set in the early 80s Ireland, complete with all the hub-bub about the "Troubles". I think it might be a better story than book two, and book 2 was very good as well - this one had just a bit less focus on the Troubles (and politics) and a bit more focus on actual detective work. Was the "locked room" mystery good... well, I suppose. It's not really a theme I'm familiar with, but I will say that I was not all that surprised at how it turned out... it's kinda what I figured it would have to be. This might indicate that the mystery component is a bit "light", because I don't normally figure things out ahead of the author telling me whodunnit (because I don't try, not because I'm particularly dumb). I think you should start with the first book in the series because a lot of the "relationship" you will develop with the story will be connected to how much you know about, and understand, Sean Duffy. If you did not like the setting of the earlier books, don't get this one either. If you don't like Sean, don't get this book. There are not really any other characters in this novel, other than a few cutouts needed to further the story, so if you don't sympathize with Duffy, you probably won't really like the story. I like the dark, dreary, hopeless setting and the character that, regardless of life handing him lemons, still makes the best of it because he believes he can make a difference.
    • 5/5
      This story focusses on events in 1983 and 1984: first of all the breakout of a number of IRA terrorists from the Maze prison and then the subsequent IRA bombings of 1984.And along the way, under the guise of investigating cold cases, Sean Duffy begins to investigate the accidental death of Lizzie Fitzpatrick. This is a locked room mystery, but the coroner had not been satisfied that the death was accidental and returned an open verdict. Mary Fitzpatrick has always been convinced it was murder but no one could envisage how it happened. But why was Lizzie changing a light bulb in the dark, balancing precariously on the bar?The locked room mystery adds an extra filip to this story. In his teens Sean Duffy had been at school with Dermot McCann, and had known the Fitzpatrick family. I also liked the way McKinty has definitely established a setting and time frame.Sean Duffy will do almost anything to regain his place in CID but how much is he controlling his destiny?This probably is the best of the Sean Duffy trilogy, but only by a hair's whisker.
    • 4/5
      Although Sean has been demoted, he is asked by MI5 to assist in tracking down an IRA leader, Dermot, who has escaped from prison. It helps that Sean went to school with the terrorist and knows his family, so he has an inside advantage that he uses. Dermot's sister has apparently been murdered, and their mother will give up Duffy's whereabouts if Sean finds out who the murderer was. As expected, this is a page turner right up until the final scenes.
    • 4/5
      I really like the Sean Duffy character, I think he's a great, layered character with whom you're willing to hang out over the span of a few hours.But if you liked the first three, or any of McKinty's Michael Forsythe books (As Dead I Well May Be, The Dead Yard, Bloomsday Dead), you'll likely enjoy this story. More great stuff from McKinty.
    • 4/5
      Get out your shillelagh, sprinkle four leaf clovers around your easy chair and get ready for a dramatic ride to Belfast in the 1980s.Sean Duffy is a Catholic in the Protestant RCY (Royal Ulster Constabulary). After being forced out of his job because he crossed the wrong people, he's visited by the M 15.Dermot McCann is an IRZ master bomber and has just escaped from Maze Prison. M 15 believe that since Duffy knew McCann from their school days, he's the best chance they have of catching McCann before he begins his bombing attacks.As a police officer, Duffy isn't welcome in Belfast but then meets a woman who strikes a deal. She'll give up McCann in return for Duffy's reopening the case to find the killer of the woman's daughter. The daughter died in a questionable manner inside a locked put. Police claim an accident but the woman knows it was murder.Duffy investigates and we witness poverty stricken Belfast and and police anxiety at what McCann is up to. Time is running short and a major event is approaching. There is to be a Conservative Party Conference in Brighton and Mrs. Thatcher is scheduled to be a speaker. This would be an ideal target for McCann.The descriptions of life in Northern Ireland is a treat. A locked room mystery and a clock running down as suspense builds is just what the doctor ordered for mystery fans.
    • 3/5
      Gerard Doyle’s narration is fabulous this man has a chameleon voice he can do any accent and every single person has a very distinct voice he is amazing!The book however, was just okay. Maybe I don’t know enough about the troubles with the IRA in the 80’s in Ireland to really be the target audience for this book. I don’t know if I would have enjoyed this better if I had read the first 2 books.This book was okay but didn’t really grab me enough to want to read anymore in the series.2 1/2 star book5 star narration
    • 4/5
      So far, this is the best of the three Sean Duffy books. Just found out there are two additional volumes, and I'm looking forward to reading those soon.
    • 5/5
      Another cracking Sean Duffy story cleverly blending fiction with real incidents. This story is set in 1984 and Sean has been drummed out of the RUC on trumped up charges but offered a lifeline by MI5, if he can track down a former school friend, now a senior figure in the IRA.
    • 5/5
      I wish this were not a trilogy. This is the third (and presumably the last) of McKinty’s “Troubles” trilogy. Disgraced and thrown off the police force after having been reduced in rank after his dissing of the FBI in the second volume, Sean is sought out by Special Branch to help locate Dermot McCann, an old acquaintance and IRA terrorist, who had escaped from jail. They fear he is about to embark on a new bombing campaign. They hope his knowledge of the area and McCann’s friends, not to mention that they know he’s a really good detective, will help them locate the terrorist.To make things really interesting, McKinty adds a locked room mystery to the mix. Mary Fitzgerald’s daughter, Lizzie, had died, ostensibly in a tragic accident as she was closing up her father’s bar. All the doors were locked and barred, there were bars on the windows, there was no attic, and no entrance through the basement. Supposedly she was changing a light bulb by standing on the bar, slipped, fell, and broke her neck. All the evidence points to an accident, but the part-time coroner insists her injuries were not consistent with a fall. Mary Fitzgerald knows where McCann is and offers a trade: Dermot’s location for Lizzie’s killer. The last chapter, really a form of epilogue is a bit strange. It foretells what McKinty knows will happen politically with a bit of puppet stringing thrown in for good measure. “I’ll tell you a little story. After victory in the Franco-Prussian war, an adjutant went to General Von Moltke and told him that his name would ring through the ages with the greatest generals in history, with Napoleon, with Caesar, with Alexander. But Moltke shook his head sadly and explained that he could never be considered a great general because he had ‘never conducted a retreat.’” “And that’s what you’ve been doing here, is it? Conducting a retreat?”Duffy is a great character, a Catholic in a Protestant institution, the RUC and we see what desperate straits Northern Ireland was in during the euphemistically named “Troubles.” I hope McKinty brings him back. In the meantime, I intend to read his other books.Read the series in order.
    • 4/5
      This is the third book in the Sean Duffy series, by Adrian McKinty, looking at an officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary at the time of The Troubles.
      Sean has always been the odd man out, as a Catholic officer in the mostly Protestant police force. He ticked off too many people in the previous book and finds himself rather cut adrift at the start of this one.
      MI5 then discovers it needs his help to try and track down an escaped IRA bomber that Sean used to know at school. In the process, he gets stuck into a cold case mystery with an impossible-to-solve locked door mystery.
      This book is very evocative of the times with the divided loyalties, petty hatreds and viciousness involved in a country split apart for so long. Sean is a very interesting, tenacious character, who just keeps worrying away at things that others just accept.
      Gerard Doyle was a fantastic narrator.
      4.5 Stars
    • 5/5
      Excellent.

      2nd read- I really like the entire series, but this is one of my particular favorites. It is very well crafted, and clever, and there's something poetic about how the story unfolds. A very good read.
    • 5/5
      Mostly a locked-room mystery, a bit silly, with a little bit of a thriller tacked on. Enjoyable. > If the disease of modern times was angst and boredom, we in Northern Ireland had found the cure. The constant presence of death collapsed ambition, worry, irony, tedium into a single word on the page. Live!
    • 5/5
      Third time has all the charm for me with this excellent entry in the Sean Duffy series. Our hero crosses paths with real characters from recent history and gets plausibly involved in real news events which I remember happening. Within this framework, there is a wholly believable locked room mystery which namechecks the best locked-room stories in literature and gets resolved with real policework and deduction. Thoroughly satisfying, leaving me properly excited about the rest of the series.
    • 5/5
      1980s, Belfast. Detective Sean Duffy is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA master bomber who has escaped from Maze Prison. Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Dermot’s whereabouts. Her daughter died in mysterious circumstances in a pub locked from the inside. The clock is ticking down to the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton in 1984, where Mrs. Thatcher is due to give a keynote speech. Will Duffy get there in time before the bomb goes off?3rd book in the Sean Duffy series and the best so far. The locked pub mystery is a cold case and I liked reading how Duffy reviews the previous investigations and finally comes to the conclusion of how the murderer was able to kill the barmaid. Sean Duffy is a great character and I'm anxious to see what happens in the next book. I found the plot well-paced and packed with history of the IRA bombings. If you haven't read this series yet, I suggest you read them in order. I recommend them to those who like mystery thrillers
    • 5/5
      another great read in the Troubles trilogy of 7 going on 9 books now. Does what crime fiction does best, it illuminates a place you may know only barely, with rich characters, lost bits of history, and a gripping mystery.