Hidden River
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Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, at the height of the Troubles. He studied politics at Oxford University and after a failed law career he moved to New York City in the early 1990s. He found work as a security guard, postman, door-to-door salesman, construction worker, barman, rugby coach, book-store clerk and librarian. He now lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter.
Serpent’s Tail also publishes Adrian McKinty’s Dead I Well May Be and The Dead Yard.
Seven time zones west of Belfast the murdered girl was alive yet and well. She was confident, popular, young and clever — this last virtue was going to be the death of her.
That and a slug from a.22.
She lay snug in the groove of the futon mattress. Over her: a cotton sheet and a fleece blanket. The fan on for noise. The humidifier for moisture. The heat in the middle of the thermostat. She was comfortable, as comfortable as one could be in this bed, in this room, in this building, in this town.