Adrian McKinty is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Dead I Well May Be, Fifty Grand, Falling Glass, and, most recently, The Sun Is God and the Detective Sean Duffy novels The Cold Cold Ground, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, In the Morning I'll Be Gone, and Gun Street Girl. Born and raised in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, McKinty was called "the best of the new generation of Irish crime novelists" in the Glasgow Herald.