Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty (2009)

Adrian McKinty (* 1968 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a Northern Irish crime writer.

life and career

McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus , near Belfast. He studied law at the University of Warwick , Coventry, and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford . After completing his studies, he moved to the USA, where he worked in Harlem as a security guard, sales representative, rugby coach, bookseller and postman. In 2001 he moved to Denver and has lived in Melbourne since 2008 . He is married and has two children. McKinty's books are hardboiled- noir literary detective novels. His novel Cold Water (2019) was number 7 on the Kimi best list in September 2019.

Awards

• 2014: Ned Kelly Award - Best Novel category for In the Morning I'll be Gone
• 2014: Barry Award - Best Paperback Original category for I Hear the Sirens in the Street
• 2017: Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original for Rain Dogs

Works

Michael Forsythe trilogy

• Dead I May Well Be . Serpents Tail Publ., London 2003, ISBN 978-1-84668-699-3 (EA London 2003)
  • German: The certain death . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-46159-4
• The Dead Yard . Serpents Tail Publ., London 2006, ISBN 1-85242-912-7 .
  • German: The quick death . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-46232-4
• The Bloomsday Dead . Serpents Tail Publ., London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84668-631-3 .
  • German: day of death . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-46277-5

Spin-off for the Michael Forsythe trilogy

• Falling Glass . Profile Books, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84668-783-9 .
  • German: One last job . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-46372-7

Lighthouse trilogy

• The Lighthouse Land . Amulett Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8109-5480-X .
• The Lighthouse War . Amulett Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-8109-9354-9 .
• The Lighthouse Keepers . Amulett Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8109-7070-0 .

Sean Duffy series

• The Cold Cold Ground . Profile Books, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84668-822-5 .
  • German: The Catholic bull . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-46450-2
• I Hear The Sirens In The Street . Serpents Tail Publ., London 2013, ISBN 978-1-84668-818-8 .
  • German: The Sirens of Belfast . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-46520-2
• In The Morning I'll Be Gone . Seventh Street Books, Amherst 2014, ISBN 978-1-61614-877-5 .
  • German: The lost sisters . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-46595-0
• Gun Street Girl . Seventh Street Books, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-63388-000-9 .
  • German: Gun Street Girl . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-46655-1
• Rain Dogs . Seventh Street Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-633-88130-3 .
  • German: Rain Dogs . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-46747-3
• Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly . Serpent's Tail, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-78125-693-0
  • German: Dirty Cops . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-46842-5
• The detective up late .
  • German: Cold Water . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-46981-1

More novels

• Orange Rhymes With Everything . Morrow Books, New York 1998, ISBN 0-688-14432-2 .
• Hidden River . Scribner, New York 2005, ISBN 0-7432-4700-0 .
• Fifty Grand . Henry Holt, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8050-8900-4 .
• Deviant . Amulett Books, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-8109-8420-2 .
• The Sun Is God . Seventh Street Books, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-61614-068-7 .
• The chain . Mulholland Books, New York 2019, ISBN 978-1-40918-959-6 .
  • German: The Chain . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-52485-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KimiBestenliste in September 2019 , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed September 4, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c} translated by Kirsten Riesselmann
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} translated by Peter Torberg
4. ↑ First published in 2015 by Serpent's Tail, London.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adrian McKinty in the catalog of the German National Library
• Adrian McKinty on Serpentstail.com
• Adrian McKinty's blog