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Ken Bruen
A secretive vigilante group called Edge cleanses Galway of its worst criminals. But when someone starts picking off Edge members, private detective Jack Taylor steps in to investigate.
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In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns.
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With his second Jack Taylor crime novel (after 2003’s The Guards ), Irish author Bruen confirms his rightful place among the finest noir stylists of his generation. The P.I. is…
Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. In the meantime, Jack is being courted by Reardon, a charismatic billionaire…
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From the award-winning author of The Dramatist comes an unsettled and original novel. RReaders will appreciate Bruen’s stripped-down noir poetry, his superbly rendered sense of place and his evocative portrait…
In this sixth book in Bruen’s brutal and brilliant Jack Taylor series, the Galway private investigator is on the hunt for a psychopath, while his surrogate son, victim of a…
A boy has been crucified in Galway city. People are shocked; the broadsheets debate how the brutal death reflects the state of the nation; the Irish Church is scandalized. No…
When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn’t remember, he reluctantly finds himself caught up with Robert Gant, a ruthless lowlife with…
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Jack Taylor is devastated by the trauma of personal loss. But a new job offers a fresh start, and an unexpected partnership makes him hope that his one desperate vision…
America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: - but not for PI Jack Taylor, who’s just been refused entry. Jack resumes his old life in…
The Cop Detective Sergeant Brant is tough and uncompromising, as sleazy and ruthless as the villains he’s out to get. While his violent methods may be questionable, Brant always gets…
Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them. Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a…
Includes a brief introduction by the author (p. vii-ix). Previously published in paperback in 2003 without this introduction. Originally published in Great Britain by The Do-Not Press Limited.
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Ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is on the hunt for a psychotic assassin who has been killing Galway police officers, one by one.
Ken Bruen, the Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel (Irish Independent), is beloved for his black humor, verse-like prose, and irascible protagonist Jack Taylor, an ex-cop who is as…
From Ireland’s most lyrical crime fiction writer, the latest installment in this addictive series pits perpetually falling Irish angel Jack Taylor (Mystery Scene) against a dangerous band of heretics.
The latest novel in Ireland’s most distinctive crime fiction series, In the Galway Silence, finds former cop Jack Taylor up against a vigilante assassin who goes by the name Silence…
From the Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel (Irish Independent), the latest installment in Bruen’s addictive series finds ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor on the hunt for a…
ome people help the less fortunate; others kill them. Welcome to Headstone, Jack Taylor’s darkest nightmare.
In the newest novel in Bruen’s thrilling series, ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is pulled out of his quiet new life on a farm by three mysteries that soon…
Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A drug pusher, a rapist, a loan shark, all targeted in what…
Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin.
Inheriting a Galway cottage may change a troubled woman’s life-but not the way she hopes-in this thriller from an original, grimly hilarious author (The Washington Post).
Kate Mitchell’s in the…
Currently in the middle of a crisis in morale, the members of the South East London police squad–Detective Sergeant Brant, in trouble for assaulting a police shrink; Chief Inspector Roberts…
For the Southeast London police squad, it’s rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuous, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions…
Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public…
Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a…
Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland’s police force, known as The Guards. He’s also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. Once Were Cops…
Including a biography of Jack Taylor, by Boru Kennedy.
The third explosive novel by Edgar-finalist Bruen set in the streets of Galway, The Magdalen Martyrs is a gripping story that takes the Jack Taylor series to new heights.
The impossible has happened: Jack Taylor is living clean and dating a mature woman. The accidental deaths of two students appear random, tragic events, but in each case a copy…
A masterful work of double-dealing and suspense from one of the great crime writers, London Boulevard is the basis of a soon-to-be motion picture from Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Manahan…
An apparent miracle unleashes a lethal chain of events in the life of Jack Taylor, ex-cop turned private eye.
From the wry master of Irish noir, The Emerald Lie is the latest novel featuring the vigilante antihero Jack Taylor, along with his lethal new sidekick Emily, a troublesomely lovable…
Two guards; one nun; one judge. When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, PI Jack Taylor is sickened, but tells himself the list has nothing…
In this mesmerizing work of crime fiction, an ex-member of The Guards–Ireland’s police force–is approached in a Galway bar by a dazzling woman with a strange request and a rumor…
Stephen Blake is a good man blown in bad directions. He and girlfriend Siobhan, best friend Tommy, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a particularly American sort of psychopath named Dade, are…
Refused entry into America, P.I. Jack Taylor thinks an encounter with an overly friendly stranger at the airport is to blame. Jack resumes his old life in Galway, but when…
Ken Bruen,Jason Starr
Reteaming a decade after their award-nominated first collaboration, Bruen and Starr complete the saga of wannabe druglord Max Fisher and his one-time assistant Angela, now working in the capital of…
When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a…
