In the Book Pages: The best-selling author discusses his latest novel in his Sean Duffy noir series, ‘The Detective Up Late.’
”I’d taken a break from this series, and I wrote a couple of standalone thrillers and I suppose at the end of lockdown I wondered if I could write another Duffy.
“I did the stats on this, I think, for the first book. In the 1980s and 1990s, it had the highest deaths of any police force in the Western world, just in terms of per capita killings. But if you dig into the statistics a little bit more, about a third of those deaths are suicides. I think it was just an incredibly stressful job,” says McKinty. “We absolutely needed therapists and counselors, but they just weren’t around.
“You’re trying to capture a world … and Duffy’s world is 1980s Belfast,” he says. “It’s the apocalypse: There are bombings going off all the time. There are riots. It’s just this never-ending – at least back then – civil war. The British sent in the army to keep the peace, and it hasn’t worked; the army had been completely sucked into the struggle. There’s intelligence agents, there’s the army, there’s the police. There’s Catholics versus Protestants; they’re battling on the street.
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