I Hear the Sirens in the Street

Detective Sean Duffy, Book 2

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case, but Sean Duffy isn’t easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of a distraction. So with detective constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim.

The torso turns out to be all that’s left of an American tourist who once served in the U.S. military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles? The trail leads to the doorstep of a beautiful, flame-haired, twentysomething widow, whose husband died at the hands of an IRA assassination team just a few months before. Suddenly Duffy is caught between his romantic instincts, gross professional misconduct, and powerful men he should know better than to mess with. These include British intelligence, the FBI, and local paramilitary death squads - enough to keep even the savviest detective busy. Duffy’s growing senseof self-doubt isn’t helping. But as a legendarily stubborn man, he doesn’t let that stop him from pursuing the case to its explosive conclusion.

©2013 Adrian McKinty (P)2013 Blackstone Audio

Ok

Am on my second listening of all the books, and struggled with this one just as the first time.

Utterly brilliant

I love Adrian's Sean Duffy. What a story about the Troubles of Northern Ireland and specifically the fascinating tale of John DeLorean's car manufacturing plant just outside of Belfast. Although the story takes place during the dark days of Northern Ireland,it abounds with tales of love and heartbreak as well as a good dose of Irish humor..
The book starts with a torso in a suitcase and from there it takes Duffy and his police mates McCrabbon (Crabby) and McBride on a hunt that leads them to an end no one, including the reader, expects.
I can't wait for Book3. This is McKinty at his best.

Not as good as first book, but still a good read.

I really enjoyed the first book in the Adrian McKinty’s crime fiction Troubles Trilogy “The Cold Cold Ground” (2012).

The second book “I Hear the Sirens in the Street” a Detective Sean Duffy novel, was not as good as the first, but does move the story along. It definitely kept me interested. I liked the way that McKinty set up the atmosphere where Duffy and the other characters lived in Northern Ireland in the 1980s.

I also liked the little addition of the DeLorean subplot of the sports car plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland and DeLorean’s troubles with drug dealings.

Overall, it was a good mystery and I am looking forward to the final book in the series, “And in the Morning I'll be Gone”, which I see is currently available from Audible.

The narrator, Gerard Doyle, was EXCELLENT.

Another brilliant story

Since I had already read book 1 in this series, I knew what to expect and was quickly absorbed into the story. As in the first book, the story is dark and the tone is cynical, but it is beautifully written and narrated. Knowing little of Northern Ireland during The Troubles, this book served as a sort of history lesson as well. The mystery was more intriguing to me in this book, as compared to the first, and I enjoyed how the character of Detective Sean Duffy continued to develop. It doesn't leave you feeling good, but definitely wanting more.

Sean Duffy Is Always Great

Any additional comments?

I'm really into anything that Andrew Mckinty writes that's read by Gerard Doyle. Between the two of them you really feel the actual Irland around the times of the big troubles with the IRA and such. Gerard Doyle sounds 100% old country Irish, and McKinty really knows Irland and the culture. Listening really gives mer a sense that I actually have been to the "Emerald Island."

McKinty is a great author who can really spin a yarn that keeps you guessing to the end, and really feeling a kinship with the primary characters. My sugesstion is to get the whole series because they're all winners

Keeps getting better

really loved it.
Look forward to the next one.

Took me awhile to get used to the accent of the narrator, but once I got used to it, it really adds to the atmosphare created

great read

another great Sean Duffy mystery. Thoroughly enjoyed it. would recommend this book to anyone. looking forward to my next Sean Duffy mystery.

Fast paced, Full of Wit, Plot Twists and Lyric Descriptions

Really engaging and surprisingly relevant, the descriptions of 80’s Northern Ireland are prescient. I find myself re-reading certain passages so I can linger over the words. The opening of this second Duffy novel confirmed for me the talent of this author to not only spin a good yarn but to write about the violence in ways that help explain our fascination with it. Do yourself a favor. Read this.

You just can't kill him

Keeps me entertained. I'm going to listen to book 3 in the series and I hope it finds a way to change things up to keep me going to book 4

I hear the sirens

Well read, brilliantly written.
Realistic and gritty.
‘The troubles’—what an ironic description of the horror.