The Cold, Cold Ground (41 page)
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Authors: Adrian McKinty
I was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. After studying philosophy at Oxford University, I emigrated to New York City where I 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 I moved to Denver, Colorado where I taught highschool English and started writing fiction in earnest. My 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 my trilogy of novels starring hitman Michael Forsythe, the DEAD trilogy.
In mid 2008 I moved to St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia with my wife and kids. My book
Fifty Grand
won the 2010 Spinetingler Award and my last novel,
Falling Glass
, was longlisted for Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year.
Visit Adrian’s blog at
http://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com/
Table of Contents
7: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
11: The Friends of Tommy Little
13: He Kissed me and it Felt Like A Hit
Don’t miss book II of Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy trilogy I Hear the Sirens in the Street