It doesn’t rain all the time, but it does rain a lot-and weather often creates the texture and soul of a country, its people, and, indeed, their deeds. You want to reach in and help, hoping to warn someone before they do something that could yield unfortunate results.Īdrian McKinty takes you to a Belfast and Northern Ireland where you actually feel the rain drumming on your forehead as you ponder the fate of the next victim. You know it is a work of fiction, but the actions and consequences seem real, causing you to feel them all in their bitter, caustic reality. McKinty expertly crafts his characters in a way that gets you fully involved in their exploits and what happens to them. You really get pulled into the dark, dank, cold world of Duffy and the relentless death and tragedy. The writing is sharp, economical, and poignant. Violence and death lurks around every corner. What is does is take him on a dark and dangerous path that unmasks double-dealings and wrong-doings at the very top tier of privilege and influence in the United Kingdom and further afield. His unwillingness to sign off on it does not make him many friends. He will not close the case as a suicide-there are far too many parts that need explaining. Who walks up awkward ancient steps in a Castle with their shoes on the wrong feet? While the possibility exists that the victim took their shoes off and put them back on the wrong way just before they jumped off the top of the Castle, the astute Duffy thinks it’s hardly likely. The main reason Duffy is reluctant to just accept the death as self-inflicted is that the victim’s shoes are on the wrong foot. The death has too many strange aspects to it to be a straightforward suicide. Something is not right-apart from the foul weather Northern Ireland serves up in copious amounts-in this top-class thriller. If the Castle knows the true facts surrounding the death, it is not giving them up to Detective Inspector Sean Duffy, who has left the warmth of his house on Coronation Road in Belfast’s Victoria Estate to tidy up the death scene. Death, when visited on others, seems to make everyone else an expert about the surroundings or the circumstances preceding the departed person’s demise-whether at their own hand or that of the cold fingers of fate reaching out for them to say their time has come. No one really knows why someone would take their own life. Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty is the 5th novel in the Detective Sean Duffy series, nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.Ĭarrickfergus Castle is witness to what seems to be the sad suicide of yet another lost soul.
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