THE SUN IS GOD

In McGinty’s new story, Will Prior, Yorkshireman and former British military police officer, finds himself investigating a murder in a utopian nudist colony on a tropical island in 1906 New Guinea. The characters and setting are phantasmagorical. Prior is one of McKinty’s compelling, conflicted heroes: a sane man in an insane world. Gerard Doyle, whose narration of McKinty’s magnificent Troubles Trilogy set the standard for Irish audiobook mysteries, does a good job with the German, Melanesian, and English people who populate McKinty’s departure from Ireland. Doyle’s performance is always clear and well paced. Sometimes his Irish intonation and McKinty’s talkative Irish style conflict with Prior’s laconic Yorkshire persona, but it’s all a good ride in a memorable location. F.C. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2014]