Adrian McKinty

McKinty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968. The fourth of five children, he grew up in the Victoria area of Carrickfergus, County Antrim. His father was a welder and boilermaker at the Harland and Wolff shipyard before becoming a merchant seaman. He grew up reading science fiction and crime novels by the likes of Ursula Le Guin, J G Ballard and Jim Thompson. He studied law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford.{{cite web|url=https://lithub.com/class-race-and-the-case-for-genre-fiction-in-the-canon/|title=Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon|date=27 September 2017}}

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After graduating from Oxford in 1993, McKinty moved to New York and found work in a number of occupations: security guard, barman, bookstore clerk, rugby coach, door to door salesman and librarian for the Columbia University Library. In 1999, while his wife studied for a Fulbright in Israel, McKinty played loose head prop forward for the Jerusalem Lions Rugby Club.{{cite web |url=http://www.downpour.com/authors/spotlight/adrian-mckinty-interview/ |title=Interview with Malcolm Hillgartner |access-date=26 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226215031/http://www.downpour.com/authors/spotlight/adrian-mckinty-interview/ |archive-date=26 December 2014 |url-status=dead}} In 2000, he relocated to Denver, Colorado, to become a high school English teacher.

After writing several short stories, a novella and book reviews, his debut crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was published by Scribner in 2003. The book was followed by two sequels in what would become to be known as the Michael Forsythe Trilogy. Alongside these, McKinty wrote the three books in his Lighthouse Trilogy, a series of science fiction young adult novels set in New York City, his native Ireland, and the fictional planet Altair.

In 2008 McKinty moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia, to become a full-time writer.{{cite news|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/adrian-mckinty-writer-46/news-story/73d6361485c6358af4c1a242582ce26b|newspaper=The Australian|accessdate=2 October 2018|first=Jill|last=Rowbotham|title=Adrian McKinty, writer, 46|date=23 January 2015}} He found his greatest success and critical acclaim with the Sean Duffy series, following the eponymous Royal Ulster Constabulary Sergeant during The Troubles, beginning with 2012's The Cold Cold Ground.

In 2019, the author made this comment about that novel: "It didn't sell very well, but it ended up getting the best reviews of my career. I got shortlisted for an Edgar, won a couple of awards, and so then that set me on that path for the next six years of reluctantly, kind of being dragged into writing about Northern Ireland in the 1980s".{{cite web|url=https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/go-into-the-story-interview-adrian-mckinty-4028be0044fe|title=Go into The Story Interview: Adrian McKinty|first=Scott|last=Myers|date=9 July 2019|website=Medium}}

The third Duffy book, In the Morning I'll Be Gone, won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. McKinty has been an especially astute observer of class in fiction.Lisa Levy, "[https://lithub.com/adrian-mckinty-working-class-hero-of-irish-crime-fiction/ Adrian McKinty: Working-Class Hero of Irish Crime Fiction.]" Lit Hub, 17 March 2016.

He also began working as a writer and reviewer for a number of publications including The Guardian,{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/adrian-mckinty|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=2 October 2018|title= Adrian McKinty}} The Sydney Morning Herald,{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/if-the-hotel-walls-had-ears-this-would-be-their-story-20140227-33jza.html|title=If the hotel walls had ears, this would be their story|first=Adrian|last=McKinty|date=28 February 2014|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}} The Washington Post,{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/18/AR2007041802362.html |title=Roger Ferris, International Man of Mystery |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=23 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113072549/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/18/AR2007041802362.html |archive-date=13 November 2016 |url-status=dead }} The Independent,{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/five-minute-memoir-adrian-mckinty-recalls-a-scary-school-run-during-the-troubles-7893376.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306122356/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/five-minute-memoir-adrian-mckinty-recalls-a-scary-school-run-during-the-troubles-7893376.html |archive-date=2016-03-06 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Five-minute memoir: Adrian McKinty recalls a scary school run during|date=30 June 2012|website=The Independent}} The Australian,{{cite web|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/ice-cold-killers-run-rampant-in-ellroys-imagined-america/news-story/9d2b8d95ea092bb4301c88a90816f0e4|title=Ice-cold killers run rampant|date=2 October 2009|website=The Australian}} The Irish Times{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/aged-16-i-vowed-never-to-read-another-novel-1.3275480|title=Aged 16, I vowed never to read another novel|first=Adrian|last=McKinty|newspaper=The Irish Times}} and Harpers.{{cite web |url=http://harpers.org/archive/1997/09/0059291 |title=Mean season: In Northern Ireland, the Troubles come as regular as rain—By Adrian McKinty (Harper's Magazine) |access-date=26 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615131012/http://harpers.org/archive/1997/09/0059291 |archive-date=15 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}

McKinty quit writing in 2017 after being evicted from his rented house, citing a lack of income from his novels, and instead took work as an Uber driver and a bartender.Flood, Alison [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/08/adrian-mckinty-interview-crime-novelist-the-chain "From Uber driving to a huge book deal: Adrian McKinty's life-changing phone call"] The Guardian, 9 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2019 Upon hearing of his situation, fellow crime author Don Winslow passed some of his books to his agent, the screenwriter and producer Shane Salerno. In a late-night phone call, Salerno persuaded McKinty to write what would become The Chain.McKinty, Adrian [https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/adrian-mckinty-i-gave-up-writing-and-found-work-in-a-bar-a-year-and-a-half-later-my-book-was-sold-to-36-countries-38307655.html "I gave up writing and found work in a bar... a year and a half later my book was sold to 36 countries"] Belfast Telegraph, 13 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2019 Salerno loaned the author ("advance on the advance") $10,000 to help him survive financially during the process.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/07/14/740848163/new-thriller-the-chain-has-an-origin-almost-as-exciting-as-its-plot|title=New Thriller 'The Chain' Has An Origin Almost As Exciting As Its Plot|website=NPR.org}}

The stand-alone thriller was inspired by the chain letters of his youth and contemporary reports of hostage exchanges. McKinty returned to writing after the book landed him a six-figure English-language book deal, and was optioned for a film adaptation by Paramount Pictures. In an interview on CBS McKinty talked about never giving up and took the interviewer, Jeff Glor, to Plum Island, Massachusetts, where The Chain is set.Adrian McKinty interviewed by Jeff Glor on CBS This Morning, "The Author behind The Chain." 3 August 2019. The Chain was published in 37 countries.

Patrick Anderson of the Washington Post has praised McKinty as a leading light of the "new wave" of Irish crime novelists along with Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and John Connolly.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501066.html]{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He often uses the classic noir tropes of revenge and betrayal to explore his characters' existential quest for meaning in a bleak but lyrically intense universe.{{Cite book |title=The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction |isbn=978-0345481238 |last1=Anderson |first1=Patrick |year=2007 |publisher=Random House }} Steve Dougherty writing in The Wall Street Journal praised McKinty's use of irony and humour as a counterpoint to the violent world inhabited by McKinty's Sean Duffy character. Liam McIlvanney, writing in the Irish Times, singled out McKinty's lyrical prose style as the defining characteristic of the Duffy series.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/troubles-fiction-too-urgent-and-topical-to-be-historical-1.3263001?mode=amp|title=Troubles fiction too urgent and topical to be historical|website=Irishtimes.com}} Some reviewers have criticised the explicit use of violence in his novels.{{cite web|url=http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/Dead_I_Well_May_Be.html|title=Review - Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty|website=Eurocrime.co.uk}} However, in reviewing McKinty's Fifty Grand in The Guardian,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/fifty-grand-adrian-mckinty-review|title=Fifty grand by Adrian McKinty | Book review|first=John|last=O'Connell|date=7 August 2009|website=Theguardian.com}} John O'Connor called him a "master craftsman of violence and redemption, up there with the likes of Dennis Lehane."{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324787004578495491457516764|title=Adrian McKinty's Hard-Boiled Belfast Trilogy|first=Steve|last=Dougherty|date=23 May 2013|website=Wsj.com}}

His novel The Dead Yard was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the 12 Best Novels of 2006.{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6388182.html |title=/404 |access-date=18 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122142413/https://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6388182.html |archive-date=22 November 2018 |url-status=dead }} Audible selected Falling Glass as the Best Mystery or Thriller of 2011.{{cite web|url=https://www.audible.com/ep/Best_of_2011_Mysteries_and_Thrillers|title=Download Audiobooks with Audible.com|website=Audible.com}} In the Morning I'll Be Gone was named as one of the 10 best crime novels of 2014 by the American Library Association.{{Cite book|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Year-s-Best-Crime-Novels-2014-Bill-Ott/pid=6757903|title=Year's Best Crime Novels: 2014, by Bill Ott | Booklist Online|first1=Booklist Online: More|last1=than 200|first2=000 Book Reviews for|last2=Librarians|first3=Book|last3=Groups|first4=book lovers-from the trusted experts at the American Library|last4=Association|via=Booklistonline.com}}

In 2016, The Guardian included book 5 of the Sean Duffy series, Rain Dogs, about the investigation of a death at Carrickfergus Castle, in their "The best recent thrillers" coverage.{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/08/best-recent-thrillers-reviews-roundup|title=The best recent thrillers – reviews roundup|date=8 January 2016|website=The Guardian}}

• 2004 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award shortlist for Dead I Well May Be
• 2007 Audie Award for Best Thriller/Suspense for The Dead Yard.{{cite web|url=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/2007audies.html |title=The Audies® 2007 Winners and Finalists |accessdate=2008-08-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724171538/http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/2007audies.html |archivedate=24 July 2008}}
• 2008 Young Hoosier Award and Beehive Award shortlist for The Lighthouse Land{{cite web|url=http://www.clau.org/0708nomslink.html |title=CLAU - Beehive Award Nominees: 2007-2008 |accessdate=2008-09-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704122422/http://www.clau.org/0708nomslink.html |archivedate=4 July 2008}}
• 2009 World Book Day Award longlist for The Bloomsday Dead{{cite web |url=http://www.spread-the-word.org.uk/pages/books-2009/books.asp |title=Spread the Word 2009 | Fiction and Non-Fiction Books | National Book Tokens | World Book Day | Booksellers Association |access-date=23 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021044848/http://www.spread-the-word.org.uk/pages/books-2009/books.asp |archive-date=21 October 2008 |url-status=usurped }}
• 2010 Spinetingler Award for Best Novel for Fifty Grand{{cite web |url=http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2010/05/01/2010-spinetingler-award-rising-star-winner/ |title=2010 Spinetingler Award Best Novel: Rising Star WINNER | Spinetingler |access-date=1 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505153010/http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2010/05/01/2010-spinetingler-award-rising-star-winner/ |archive-date=5 May 2010 |url-status=dead }}
• 2011 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award longlist for Fifty Grand{{cite web |url=http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/33732 |title=Booktrade.info - Book Trade Announcements - 2011 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist Revealed |access-date=13 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516033752/http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/33732 |archive-date=16 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• 2013 Spinetingler Award for Best Crime Novel for The Cold Cold Ground{{cite web |url=http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2013/05/03/2013-spinetingler-award-best-novel-rising-starlegends-winner/ |title=2013 Spinetingler Award Best Novel: Rising Star/Legends – WINNER « Spinetingler |access-date=6 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615123202/http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2013/05/03/2013-spinetingler-award-best-novel-rising-starlegends-winner/ |archive-date=15 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}
• 2013 Prix Du Meilleur Polar shortlist for The Cold Cold Ground{{cite web|url=https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/le-tueur-se-meurt-de-james-sallis-meilleur-polar-de-l-annee-2013_1303575.html|title=Le tueur se meurt de James Sallis: meilleur polar de l'année 2013|date=29 November 2013|website=LExpress.fr}}
• 2013 Crime Fest Last Laugh Award shortlist for The Cold Cold Ground{{cite web|url=http://www.crimefest.com/awards.html|title=This page has moved|website=Crimefest.com}}
• 2013 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel shortlist for I Hear the Sirens in the Street{{cite web |url=http://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/announcing-2013-ned-kelly-shortlist |title=Announcing the 2013 Ned Kelly Shortlist | Australian Crime Writers Association |access-date=3 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130804192730/http://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/announcing-2013-ned-kelly-shortlist |archive-date=4 August 2013 |url-status=dead }}
• 2014 Barry Award (for crime novels)for Best Mystery Novel (Paperback Original) for I Hear the Sirens in the Street{{cite web|url=http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Awards/Barry_Awards.html|title=Barry Awards|website=Stopyourekillingme.com}}
• 2014 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière shortlist for I Hear the Sirens in the Street{{cite web|url=http://www.lalettredulibraire.com/?post/2014/06/27/Grand-Prix-de-Litt%C3%A9rature-Polici%C3%A8re-2014-la-s%C3%A9lection|title=Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2014 la sélection|date=8 July 2014|website=Lalettredulibraire.com}}
• 2014 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award shortlist for I Hear the Sirens in the Street{{cite web |url=http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/53772 |title=Long List Announced for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2014 |access-date=30 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714123245/http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/53772 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead }}
• 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction for In the Morning I'll Be Gone{{Cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/carrick-author-adrian-mckinty-scoops-literary-accolade-for-troubles-thriller-30568756.html|title=Carrick author Adrian McKinty scoops literary accolade for Troubles thriller|newspaper=Belfasttelegraph}}
• 2015 Audie Award For Best Thriller shortlist for In the Morning I'll Be Gone{{cite web|url=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/content/uploaded/media/2015%20audie%20awards%20release.pdf|title=20th Annual Audie® finalists announced in thirty categories. Winners announced at the Audie Awards Gala in New York City on May 28th hosted by award winning author Jack Gantos|website=Audiofilemagazine.com|accessdate=18 July 2019}}
• 2015 Prix SNCF Du Polar shortlist for The Cold Cold Ground{{cite web|url=https://www.polar.sncf.com/competition/romans |title=LE POLAR SNCF - Compétition |accessdate=2014-11-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129015519/https://www.polar.sncf.com/competition/romans |archivedate=29 November 2014}}
• 2015 Ned Kelly Award shortlist for Gun Street Girl{{cite web |url=http://www.austcrimewriters.com/2015-submissions/shortlist |title=2015 Shortlist | Australian Crime Writers Association |access-date=8 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810231541/http://www.austcrimewriters.com/2015-submissions/shortlist |archive-date=10 August 2015 |url-status=dead }}
• 2015 Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 for Gun Street Girl{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/12/04/the-best-books/pbHAwhg02UDEyRf95kIQiK/story.html|title=The best books of 2015 |work=The Boston Globe}}
• 2015 Irish Times Best Crime Novel of 2015 for Gun Street Girl{{Cite news|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-crime-fiction-of-2015-1.2471228#.VnWSu2o6M_E.twitter|title = Irish Times|last = Burke|first = Declan}}
• 2016 Edgar Award (Best Paperback Original) shortlist for Gun Street Girl{{cite web|url=http://www.theedgars.com/edgars2016/2016EdgarNominations.pdf|title=Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the Nominees for the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards|website=Theedgars.com|accessdate=18 July 2019|archive-date=26 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826080325/http://www.theedgars.com/edgars2016/2016EdgarNominations.pdf|url-status=dead}}
• 2016 Anthony Award (Best Paperback Original) shortlist for Gun Street Girl{{cite web|url=http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html |title=Boucercon Nominees |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html |archivedate=7 February 2012 }}
• 2016 Audie Award for Best Mystery shortlist for Gun Street Girl{{cite tweet|user=adrianmckinty|author=Adrian McKinty|number=697141264165294081|date=9 February 2016|title=bloody delighted to be shortlisted for best mystery audiobook! #audies #underdog #blackstoneaudio #mystery}}/photo/1
• 2016 Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 for Rain Dogs{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/12/07/best-books/YogFuxKTVPooo8odn8UQBP/story.html|title=Best books of 2016 |work=The Boston Globe}}
• 2016 Irish Times Best Crime Novel of 2016 for Rain Dogs{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-crime-fiction-of-2016-1.2901463|title=The best crime fiction of 2016|first1=Declan|last1=Burke|first2=Declan|last2=Hughes|newspaper=The Irish Times}}
• 2016 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award shortlist for Rain Dogs{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36413168|title=Rowling's Galbraith makes book shortlist|date=31 May 2016|website=Bbc.com}}
• 2016 Ned Kelly Award shortlist for Rain Dogs{{cite web |url=http://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/announcing-2016-ned-kelly-award-shortlists |title=Announcing the 2016 Ned Kelly Award Shortlists | Australian Crime Writers Association |access-date=27 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731150841/http://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/announcing-2016-ned-kelly-award-shortlists |archive-date=31 July 2016 |url-status=dead }}
• 2016 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger shortlist for Rain Dogs{{cite web|url=http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2016/05/cwa-dagger-award-longlists.html|title=Mystery Fanfare: CWA Dagger Award Longlists|first=Janet|last=Rudolph|date=20 May 2016}}
• 2017 Edgar Award (Best Paperback Original) for Rain Dogs{{cite web|url=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html|title=Edgar Award Nominees|website=Theedgars.com|access-date=28 April 2017|archive-date=7 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307172053/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html|url-status=dead}}
• 2017 Barry Award for Rain Dogs{{cite web |url=https://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Awards/Barry_Awards.html |title=Barry Awards |access-date=13 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014035719/https://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Awards/Barry_Awards.html |archive-date=14 October 2017 |url-status=dead }}
• 2017 Anthony Award (Best Paperback Original) for Rain Dogs{{cite web |url=http://bouchercon2017.com/anthony-awards/ |access-date=17 May 2017 }}
• 2017 Ned Kelly Award for Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/crime-writers-jane-harper-and-adrian-mckinty-win-ned-kelly-award-for-best-novel-20170831-gy87nw.html|title=Crime writers Jane Harper and Adrian McKinty win Ned Kelly Award for best novel|first=Jason|last=Steger|date=1 September 2017|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}
• 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award shortlist for Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly{{cite web|url=http://wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2017/05/cwa-dagger-longlists.html|title=Shotsmag Confidential: CWA Dagger Longlists|first=Ayo|last=Onatade|date=19 May 2017}}
• 2017 Boston Globe Best Book of 2017 for Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2017/12/13/the-best-books/fam7CEMMpGiOa1loXSayJO/story.html |title=The best books of 2017 - the Boston Globe |website=The Boston Globe |access-date=14 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215054718/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2017/12/13/the-best-books/fam7CEMMpGiOa1loXSayJO/story.html |archive-date=15 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}
• 2018 International Thriller Writers Awards (Best Paperback Original Novel) shortlist for Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly{{cite web|url=http://thrillerwriters.org/thriller-awards/|title=2019 Thriller Awards – International Thriller Writers|website=Thrillerwriters.org}}
• 2019 Time magazine Books of the Year for The Chain{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2019/5724592/the-chain/|title='The Chain' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2019|magazine=Time}}
• 2020 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020 winner for The Chain.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/belfast-author-adrian-mckinty-wins-major-crime-fiction-prize-1.4311946|title=Belfast author Adrian McKinty wins major crime fiction prize|newspaper=The Irish Times }}
• 2020 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award longlist for The Chain; CWA Body in the Library longlist for The Chain{{cite web|url=https://wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2020/06/cwa-dagger-awards-2020-longlists.html|title=Shotsmag Confidential: CWA Dagger Awards 2020 Longlists Announced|first=Ayo|last=Onatade|date=5 June 2020}}
• 2020 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel, The Chain.{{cite web|url=https://thrillerwriters.org/thriller-awards|title = 2022 Thriller Awards – International Thriller Writers}}
• 2020 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction for The Chain.{{cite web|url=https://www.austcrimewriters.com/ned-kelly-awards |title=Ned Kelly Awards — Australian Crime Writers Association |publisher=Austcrimewriters.com |date= |accessdate=2022-06-15}}
• 2020 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Novel by Mystery Readers International for The Chain.{{Cite web|url=https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2020/10/macavity-award-winners-2020.html|title=Mystery Fanfare: MACAVITY AWARD WINNERS 2020|first=Janet|last=Rudolph|date=16 October 2020}}
• 2020 Barry Award (for crime novels) for Best Mystery Novel winner for The Chain.
• 2022 In The Morning I'll Be Gone winner of the Prix Polar Pourpres for Best Mystery Novel {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150617014518/http://polars.pourpres.net/prix-polars-pourpres#:~:text=Le%20palmar%C3%A8s,Chastel)%20pour%20le%20Prix%20D%C3%A9couverte. Article title]}} {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
• 2022 [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/books/review/best-thrillers.html Best Thrillers of 2022] for The Island. New York Times
• 2023 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/12/best-thrillers-2023-cosby-mckinty Best Thrillers of 2023] for The Detective Up Late. Washington Post
• 2024 Barry Award (for crime novels) nominee for Best Mystery Novel for The Detective Up Late

1. Dead I Well May Be (Scribner) 2003
2. The Dead Yard (Scribner) 2006
3. The Bloomsday Dead (Scribner) 2007{{cite news|last1=Anderson|first1=Patrick|title=Going great guns in Belfast|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501066.html|accessdate=28 March 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=26 March 2007}}

{{main|The Lighthouse Trilogy}}

1. The Lighthouse Land (Abrams) 2006
2. The Lighthouse War (Abrams) 2007
3. The Lighthouse Keepers (Abrams) 2008

1. The Cold Cold Ground (Serpents Tail) 2012 {{ISBN|978-1616147167}}
2. I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Serpents Tail) 2013 {{ISBN|978-1616147877}}
3. In the Morning I'll Be Gone (Serpents Tail) 2014 {{ISBN|978-1616148775}}
4. Gun Street Girl (Serpents Tail) 2015 {{ISBN|978-1633880009}}
5. Rain Dogs (Serpents Tail) 2016 {{ISBN|978-1633881303}}
6. Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Serpents Tail) 2017 {{ISBN|1781256926}}
7. The Detective Up Late (Blackstone) 2023
8. Hang On St Christopher (Blackstone) 2025
9. The Ghosts Of Saturday Night TBD

Two more Sean Duffy novels to be published by Blackstone Publishing{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/76149-book-deals-week-of-february-26-2018.html |title=Book Deals: Week of February 26, 2018 |access-date=30 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330212209/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/76149-book-deals-week-of-february-26-2018.html |archive-date=30 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://new.deadlypleasures.com/2021/01/05/new-adrian-mckinty-sean-duffy-novel-out-in-fall-of-2021/|title=New Adrian McKinty — Sean Duffy Novel Out in Fall of 2021 – Deadly Pleasures|access-date=5 July 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182759/http://new.deadlypleasures.com/2021/01/05/new-adrian-mckinty-sean-duffy-novel-out-in-fall-of-2021/|url-status=dead}}

On a blog post dated July 15, 2021, on his official site, McKinty explains that the 7th Sean Duffy novel (The Detective Up Late) may be out in late 2022. He states that The Detective Up Late is in fact finished and Book 8 (Hang On St Christopher) is pretty much done.

• Orange Rhymes With Everything (novella) (Morrow) 1998
• Hidden River (Scribner) 2005
• Fifty Grand (Holt) 2009
• Falling Glass (Serpents Tail) 2011
• Deviant (Abrams) 2011
• The Sun Is God (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) 2014
• The Chain (Orion) 2019
• The Island (Little, Brown and Company) 2022

• Belfast Noir (Akashic) 2014 with Stuart Neville

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508193257/http://www.serpentstail.com/adrian-mckinty Fearless fiction and non-fiction from an award-winning publisher - Serpent's Tail Books]
• [http://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com the psychopathology of everyday life - Adrian McKinty's blog]

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