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Adrian McKinty

Author of The Chain

Includes the names: Adrian McKinty, by Adrian Mckinty, Эдриан Маккинти, McKinty Adrian; Adrian Mckinty

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Adrian McKinty was born in Northern Ireland. He read politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is a crime fiction novelist, blogger and book reviewer. His novels include the Sean Duffy series and the Lighthouse Trilogy. He made the Ned Kelly 2015 shortlists in the category of Best Novel with his title Gun Street Girl. He won the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best paperback original with his novel, Rain Dogs. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Chain… (more)
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Works by Adrian McKinty
The Chain 1,333 copies, 73 reviews
The Cold, Cold Ground 708 copies, 62 reviews
Dead I Well May Be 416 copies, 12 reviews
The Island 388 copies, 29 reviews
I Hear the Sirens in the Street 369 copies, 36 reviews
In the Morning I'll Be Gone 339 copies, 27 reviews
Rain Dogs 282 copies, 25 reviews
Gun Street Girl 280 copies, 25 reviews
The Dead Yard 242 copies, 7 reviews
The Bloomsday Dead 242 copies, 13 reviews
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly 241 copies, 23 reviews
The Lighthouse Land 166 copies, 5 reviews
Falling Glass 157 copies, 19 reviews
Hidden River 150 copies, 6 reviews
Fifty Grand 142 copies, 10 reviews
Belfast Noir (Editor) 86 copies, 14 reviews
The Sun Is God 78 copies, 5 reviews
The Lighthouse War 72 copies, 1 review
Deviant 57 copies, 13 reviews
The Detective Up Late 38 copies, 2 reviews
The Lighthouse Keepers 37 copies
Orange Rhymes With Everything 12 copies
Hang On, St. Christopher 6 copies, 3 reviews
Lee 2 copies, 1 review
Sean Duffy Collection Books 4-6 1 copy
No title 1 copy
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OxCrimes (Contributor) 71 copies, 7 reviews
Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Contributor) 28 copies
The Best British Mysteries 4 (Contributor) 25 copies, 1 review
Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (Contributor) 21 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10 (Contributor) 19 copies
Requiems for the Departed (Contributor, some editions) 13 copies
Shaken: Stories for Japan (Contributor) 12 copies, 1 review
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1968-06-08
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male
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Northern Ireland
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UK
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Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Denver, Colorado, USA
Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Harlem, New York, USA
Education
University of Warwick
University of Oxford
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novelist
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Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University before moving to New York in the mid 1990s His first novel Dead I Well May Be (loosely based on his experiences as an illegal immigrant in the US) was published in 2003. In 2012 after moving to Australia with his wife and children he began publication of the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series. In 2019 after giving up writing Adrian had a global hit with his standalone novel The Chain. Adrian's books have won the Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award (3 times), The Anthony Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.
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