![]() Duffy and his colleagues are attacked when they try to follow up leads in Belfast’s “no go” areas, and they are hampered by the fact that homosexual acts are illegal as well as abhorred by IRA and UVF alike – nobody is interested in helping the police investigate an apparent homosexual crime.īrennan, Duffy’s boss, suddenly hands over to him another case: that of a missing woman called Lucy Moore. Bobby Sands, the Maze hunger striker, has just died so there are riots and strikes in the city, not to mention terrorist attacks. The next 200 pages follow Duffy’s attempts to investigate the crime against a background of violence. Apparently, there has never been a serial killer in Ireland because, it is said, anyone of that mindset can easily find an occupation working for the IRA, the UVF,or other political faction. She also provides him with some more evidence that indicates that the killing is not a straightforward impulsive deed or a political execution.ĭuffy and colleagues soon track down a second victim, whose corpse contains similar clues in addition to the first victim’s hand. Attending the autopsy, Duffy is embarrassed to be told by the pathologist, Laura Cathcart, that the hand does not belong to the victim. Detective Sergeant Sean Duffy, who has just moved to the area and taken up a new post at Carrickfergus CID, is given the case, with two colleagues to help. ![]() A man is found dead in his car : he has been shot and his hand cut off. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cold Cold Ground is a police procedural set in the chaos of 1981 Belfast, Northern Ireland. ![]()
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