Adrian McKinty Book List - Australian Crime Fiction HQ

Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. After studying philosophy at Oxford University he emigrated to New York City where he lived in Harlem for six years working in bars, bookstores, building sites and finally the basement stacks of the Columbia University Medical School Library in Washington Heights. In April 2008 he moved to St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia with his wife and kids.

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Michael Forsythe series

Forsythe is an illegal immigrant from Belfast, Northern Ireland, in New York City

Dead I Well May Be (2003)
The Dead Yard (2006)
The Bloomsday Dead (2007)

Sean Duffy series

Duffy is a detective sergeant and later a detective inspector in 1980s and 90s Northern Ireland

The Cold, Cold Ground (2012)
I Hear the Sirens in the Street (2013)
In the Morning I'll be Gone (2014)
Gun Street Girl (2015)
Rain Dogs (2015)
Police at the Station And They Don't Look Friendly (2017)
The Detective Up Late (2023)
Hang On St Christopher (2025)

McKinty Police at the Station And They Don't Look Friendly

Stand Alone

Orange Rhymes With Everything (1997)
Hidden River (2004)
Fifty Grand (2009)
Falling Glass (2011)
Deviant (2011)
The Sun is God (2014)
The Chain (2019)
The Island (2022)