Acclaimed by many as the best in the series, it was also shortlisted for the 2016 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the 2016 Ned Kelly Award and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2016.
The first Sean Duffy novel, The Cold Cold Ground, won the 2013 Spinetingler Award. Originally intended as a trilogy, the extended series concluded with this year’s Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly.