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<v Speaker 1>Hello, this is the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm hot on the heels of a brand new

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<v Speaker 1>detective series. I discovered the first book, The Cold Cold Ground,

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<v Speaker 1>featuring Detective Sean Duffy, published back in twenty twelve. The

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<v Speaker 1>action takes place in Northern Ireland during the Troubles Spring

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty one, the center of the Troubles Belfast. Sean

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<v Speaker 1>Duffy is a tough, young, very smart Catholic detective working

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<v Speaker 1>in the heavily Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, and he's tasked

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<v Speaker 1>with trying to track down a serial killer targeting homosexuals.

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<v Speaker 1>But things, of course, aren't what they appear, with one

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<v Speaker 1>of the victims a high level operative for the IRA.

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<v Speaker 1>What appears on the outside to be the work of

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<v Speaker 1>a serial killer turns out to be a tangled web

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<v Speaker 1>of politics deceit with sectarian violence at the center of it.

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<v Speaker 1>The author, Adrian McGuinty, has written several Shawn Duffy novels,

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<v Speaker 1>and McGuinty gets it right, from the locales to the dialogue.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an unusual crime thriller set in a dangerous time

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<v Speaker 1>and location. The Cold Cold Ground, the book Club WZ,

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