Adrian McKinty Books in Order

Now living part-time in Scotland, Sean Duffy expects an easy glide toward retirement. Instead he catches a murder case involving a dead painter, an IRA assassin's past, and the dangerous politics gathering around the peace process.

This prequel novella drops Sean Duffy into his first weeks at Carrickfergus CID in 1980 Belfast. Newly promoted and very exposed, he gets an early case and an even earlier lesson in how deadly the job can be.

Heather Baxter's working vacation in the Australian outback turns disastrous after her blended family steps onto a remote island run by a hostile clan. Cut off from help, she has to keep the children alive through a brutal chase.

Rachel learns her daughter has been kidnapped, and the ransom is unthinkable: to get her back, she must abduct someone else's child. McKinty turns that nightmare premise into a relentless thriller about fear, guilt, and survival.

On the verge of leaving Carrickfergus CID, Sean Duffy cannot let go of the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old Traveller girl. His last case leads into abuse, indifference, and the question of how much one detective can still change.

A crossbow killing in 1988 Belfast would be bad enough on its own, but Sean Duffy is also under pressure from Internal Affairs and enemies he cannot quite see. The case pushes him into one of his most dangerous corners yet.

When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle, Sean Duffy is told it was suicide. He is not convinced, and his digging opens onto a locked-room puzzle and a cover-up with real power behind it.

A rich couple are murdered in front of their television, their troubled son seems to confess, and Sean Duffy is told the case is finished. He keeps pulling at the loose threads and walks straight into a much bigger conspiracy.

In 1906, ex-soldier Will Prior is asked to investigate a suspicious death on a remote South Pacific island run by a strange sun-worshipping group. The journey becomes part murder mystery, part colonial nightmare.

When MI5 asks Sean Duffy to help find escaped IRA bomber Dermot McCann, the trail runs through a locked-room murder and old history. Duffy is chasing both a terrorist and the parts of his own past he would rather leave buried.

Back on the job, Sean Duffy is handed a torso-in-a-suitcase case with almost nothing to go on but a tattoo. His search through Belfast and beyond becomes as personal as it is obsessive.

Amid hunger strikes and street violence in 1981 Northern Ireland, Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy hunts a killer targeting gay men. The case looks like one more brutal spree until politics and buried secrets start crowding in.

Killian, a hard man tied to an Irish Traveller community, takes a lucrative job to find an airline tycoon's ex-wife and children. The case turns ugly fast, and his loyalties shift as he learns why the family ran.

Danny Lopez arrives at a tightly controlled Colorado school for troubled teens, where every word and movement is scripted. When a killer starts targeting students, Danny has to work out what the school is really hiding.

Cuban detective Mercado slips out of Havana and heads to Colorado after her estranged father dies in a suspicious hit-and-run. She wants justice, but the deeper she digs, the tighter the town's money and power close around her.

Jamie and Ramsay are now veterans of interplanetary trouble, and their friend Wishaway is hiding on Earth. With Altair facing disaster, Jamie is pushed toward a choice that could save one world and lose the other.

Back on Earth, Jamie O'Neill is trying to be ordinary again when a coded message arrives from far across the galaxy. He and Ramsay are pulled toward Altair once more, where the war they thought they ended is far from over.

Hidden in Lima, Michael Forsythe gets one last chance at redemption: return to Ireland and find Bridget Callaghan's missing daughter before midnight. The hunt drags him back into old grudges, Dublin chaos, and the violence he can never quite outrun.

After cancer and the loss of an arm, Jamie O'Neill moves with his mother from Harlem to a small Irish island. There he finds an old lighthouse, a strange inheritance, and a doorway into a much larger world.

Michael Forsythe leaves witness protection for a holiday and ends up in a Spanish prison. To stay out of jail, he goes undercover inside an IRA sleeper cell in New England, where every lie can get him killed.

When his former girlfriend Victoria is murdered in Colorado, struggling ex-cop Alex Lawson leaves Belfast to help her family find the killer. Grief and guilt soon open into corruption, pursuit, and an investigation that could finish him too.

Illegal immigrant Michael Forsythe escapes Belfast for New York and is pulled into an Irish gang war under crime boss Darkey White. When betrayal lands him in a Mexican prison, the story turns into a lean, vicious revenge thriller.

McKinty's debut alternates between a teenage Protestant girl in Northern Ireland and a violent Irish man in a New York mental hospital awaiting extradition who may be her father. It is a dark, unsettled story about family, identity, and the Troubles.