![]() ![]() The "troubles" provide a backdrop to Duffy's investigation, and are seamlessly - and cleverly - interwoven into the plot. Though subtitled "The Troubles Trilogy", The Cold Cold Ground is first and foremost a police procedural-style whodunit. All things considered, he simply doesn't have the time to deal with it, but he can't shake the feeling that somehow these proximate cases may be connected. Almost certainly a suicide - her husband had just started a hunger strike in jail to protest the British occupation of Northern Ireland - but according to her family, she was supposed to have been in Dublin, not Ulster. He, not I, will decide their fate." It is finding who decided their mortal fate that is of immediate concern to Duffy when he's presented with another case, that of a young woman found hanging from a tree. My task is merely to free them from this world and let them have true judgement before the Lord. ![]() Duffy receives a postcard in the mail from the killer. It isn't long before speculation becomes fact. But when the bodies of two gay men are found, shot in the head, each with a severed hand of the other nearby, Duffy suspects that someone may be targeting homosexuals in The Cold Cold Ground, the first mystery of "The Troubles Trilogy" by Adrian McKinty. ![]() Police resources are stretched thin trying to keep a fragile peace in Ulster, and the last thing Detective Sean Duffy needs is a serial killer on the loose. ![]()
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