I Hear the Sirens in the Street

ABOUT … Adrian McKinty

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 seven years, working in bars, bookstores, building sites and finally the basement stacks of the Columbia University Medical School Library in Washington Heights.

In 2000 he moved to Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and started writing fiction in earnest. His first full-length novel Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was picked by Booklist as one of the ten best crime novels of the year. The sequel to that book, The Dead Yard, was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the twelve best novels of 2006 and won the Audie Award for best mystery or thriller. These two novels, along with The Bloomsday Dead, form the DEAD trilogy of novels, starring hitman Michael Forsythe.

In mid 2008 Adrian moved to St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia with his wife and children. His book Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award and his novel Falling Glass was longlisted for Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year.

The first of his Sean Duffy thrillers, The Cold Cold Ground, was published in 2012. The third volume, And In the Morning I’ll Be Gone, will appear in 2014.

Visit Adrian’s blog at http://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com/