Speaker 1: Hello, this is the WZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich
Speaker 1: and I'm hot on the heels of a brand new
Speaker 1: detective series. I discovered the first book, The Cold Cold Ground,
Speaker 1: featuring Detective Sean Duffy, published back in twenty twelve. The
Speaker 1: action takes place in Northern Ireland during the Troubles Spring
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, the center of the Troubles Belfast. Sean
Speaker 1: Duffy is a tough, young, very smart Catholic detective working
Speaker 1: in the heavily Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, and he's tasked
Speaker 1: with trying to track down a serial killer targeting homosexuals.
Speaker 1: But things, of course, aren't what they appear, with one
Speaker 1: of the victims a high level operative for the IRA.
Speaker 1: What appears on the outside to be the work of
Speaker 1: a serial killer turns out to be a tangled web
Speaker 1: of politics deceit with sectarian violence at the center of it.
Speaker 1: The author, Adrian McGuinty, has written several Shawn Duffy novels,
Speaker 1: and McGuinty gets it right, from the locales to the dialogue.
Speaker 1: It's an unusual crime thriller set in a dangerous time
Speaker 1: and location. The Cold Cold Ground, the book Club WZ,
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