Order of Adrian McKinty Books
Adrian McKinty is an Irish author of crime fiction and young adult novels. He writes the Michael Forsythe series, Lighthouse Trilogy YA series and the Sean Duffy series. McKinty studied law at the University of Warwick and then studied politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. Before becoming a novelist, he taught high school English in Denver, Colorado. McKinty has written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Melbourne Age and Harpers Magazine. His novel In The Morning I’ll Be Gone won the Ned Kelly Award in 2014. Adrian lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.
Adrian McKinty became a published author in 1997 with the novel Orange Rhymes with Everything. Below is a list of Adrian McKinty’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of Michael Forsythe Books
| Dead I Well May Be | (2003) |    |
| The Dead Yard | (2006) | |
| The Bloomsday Dead | (2007) | |
Publication Order of Lighthouse Trilogy Books
| The Lighthouse Land | (2006) | |
| The Lighthouse War | (2007) | |
| The Lighthouse Keepers | (2008) | |
Publication Order of Detective Sean Duffy Books
| The Cold Cold Ground | (2012) | |
| I Hear the Sirens in the Street | (2013) | |
| In the Morning I'll Be Gone | (2014) | |
| Gun Street Girl | (2015) | |
| Rain Dogs | (2015) | |
| Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Orange Rhymes With Everything | (1997) | |
| Hidden River | (2004) | |
| Fifty Grand | (2009) | |
| Falling Glass | (2011) | |
| Deviant | (2011) | |
| The Sun Is God | (2014) | |
| The Chain | (2019) | |
| The Island | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Radio Silence | (2012) | |
| Hard Labour | (2012) | |
| OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters | (2014) | |
| Belfast Noir | (2014) | |
Note: The anthology Belfast Noir was edited with Stuart Neville.
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Adrian McKinty Synopsis: Orange Rhymes with Everything is the debut novel of Adrian McKinty. The novel is the look at Protestants in Northern Ireland from the viewpoint of a teenage girl and an man who may be her father.
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I would strongly recommend is series about a Protestant policeman working in a Catholic district. I loved them, very realistic, but I wasn’t as educated as I thought, couple of words I needed to check. But it added to my enjoyment.