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The Island was the most recently released book by Adrian McKinty, on May 17th, 2022.
Adrian McKinty Stats: The highest rated book by Adrian McKinty on Book Notification is Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly, the 6th novel in the Detective Sean Duffy series. The second-highest rated book is Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5).
The most read book by Adrian McKinty on Book Notification is The Chain, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy #1).
Below is a complete list of Adrian McKinty books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Adrian McKinty is the Detective Sean Duffy Series.
Living in New York as an illegal immigrant, the Irish ex-gangster Michael Forsythe battles with enemies in an attempt to survive.
YA novels where an Irish teenager discovers a portal to the far off planet Altair. Adventure ensues.
Follows a cop solving crimes in 1980s Northern Ireland during political unrest.
Adrian McKinty was born in 1968 and is currently 56 years old. Adrian McKinty was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. McKinty attended University of Warwick where he Studied Law and University of Oxford where he Studied Politics and Philosophy.
Adrian McKinty is the author of the Detective Sean Duffy series which currently consists of 7 novels. The Detective Sean Duffy series started in 2012 with the novel The Cold Cold Ground. The most recently released novel in the Detective Sean Duffy series was The Detective Up Late which was released in 2018. There are no upcoming novels for the Detective Sean Duffy series.
In 2017, Adrian McKinty decided to stop writing due to his novels not being able to support him financially. However author Don Winslow gave some of McKintys novels and ideas to his agent, who convinced Adrian to write The Chain and gave him an advance for writing it which ended up being a huge success.
McKinty has worked various jobs throughout his life such as a door to door salesman, high school teacher and a rugby coach. He also played rugby for the Jerusalem Lions Rugby Club.
Adrian drew a lot of his experiences from growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. He spoke at length to Go Into the Story. about it, and how one of his first memories is being in a major department store when there was a fire bombing. He initially didn't want to write about Belfast. He had been given advice not to write any Irish Crime Fiction because it wasn't a topic anyone wanted to read. Then in 2011 he started writing a chapter which was set in Belfast, and ended up being the beginning of the Sean Duffy series, The Cold, Cold Ground. He thought the book may switch to England or the USA, but the story kept him in Belfast for the entire novel.
The Chain was ranked as one of the best Mystery & Crime Thrillers of 2019 by The Real Book Spy calling the book a game-changer" and not to be missed. In 2022 it would be The Island to make their list of Best Thrillers of the year.
Adrian McKinty has won many awards including:
The following novels by Adrian McKinty were nominated for these awards:
The Chain was picked up by Universal Pictures in 2019 to be adapted into a movie, although has not been released yet.
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I remember reading about Adrian McKinty in The Guardian and getting somewhat irritated with the man. The article said that he went from Uber driving to a massive book deal, which I found annoying. Granted, I did not read the article. I stopped at the headline, thought about my own failed attempts at getting into publishing, and then went to Amazon to see if his books deserved the hype.
Admittedly, the comparisons between Adrian and me are ridiculous. He actually wrote a book (Several books). I’ve written roughly two chapters of my manuscript in the last three years. Clearly, he’s reaping the fruits of his hard work, and aspiring authors like myself should learn from him.
You can’t even dismiss his accomplishments as luck. I read The Chain the other day, and it is every bit as imaginative as they say. The man has talent.
That’s a great review. Maybe you should be reading and writing about new authors. You seem to have a knack for it.
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