★ 本書入圍2016 Theakstone’s Crime Novel of the Year Award，以及Steel Dagger Award 2016決賽選
★ 作者Adrian McKinty 是Spinetingler Award和Ned Kelly Award的獲獎作家

What detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?

When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are just a few things that bother Duffy enough to keep the case file open. Which is how he finds out that she was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond.

And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?

 

Adrian McKinty is the author of sixteen novels, including the Detective Sean Duffy novels, The Cold Cold Ground, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, In the Morning I'll Be Gone―winner of the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction―and Gun Street Girl, which was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by the Boston Globe and The Irish Times and was shortlisted for the 2016 Edgar Award. Born and raised in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, McKinty was called "the best of the new generation of Irish crime novelists" by the Glasgow Herald.

 

The tension between McKinty's competing love of tight, formal puzzles and loose, riffing dialogue is what makes the Duffy novels such a tremendous joy. - The Guardian

A classic plot with modern twists...[another] thoroughly engaging crime novel set in Northern Ireland.- The Sunday Times (London)