Another great book from one of my favourite authors.

Hang On St. Christopher (2025) is the 8th novel in Adrian McKinty’s critically acclaimed Sean Duffy mystery series, released on March 4, 2025.

Despite the previous book, The Detective Up Late, being heavily promoted as Duffy’s final case, this instalment welcomes the street-worn detective back for another dangerous assignment.

• The Setting: It is July 1992. The Troubles in Northern Ireland have been grinding on for 25 apocalyptic years.
  
• Duffy’s Status: Sean Duffy has successfully relocated his family over the water to Scotland. He is now a semi-retired part-timer, only returning to Belfast six days a month just to secure his police pension.
• The Inciting Incident: While his protégé, Detective Sergeant Lawson, is away on holiday in Spain, a seemingly straightforward case lands in Duffy’s lap. A middle-aged, solitary portrait painter is killed in what looks like a carjacking gone wrong.
• The Twist: Duffy quickly uncovers that the dead painter was actually an IRA assassin.
• The Stakes: Duffy is forced to figure out who hit the hitman and why. His investigation leads him into a complex web of parallel, true-events-based operations involving the CIA, MI5, and Special Branch, with the future of the burgeoning Irish peace process hanging in the balance