Jack Taylor series
1) The guards
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.
Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential voice in contemporary crime fiction.
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana—The Guards, Ireland's police force—and staring at the world through the smoky bottom
Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
Ken Bruen wowed critics and readers alike when he introduced Jack Taylor in The Guards; now he's back with The Killing of the Tinkers, a novel of gritty brilliance that cements Bruen's place among the greats of modern crime fiction.
When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London
A shadowy killer is stalking Galway in The Dramatist, the fourth lean and lethal entry in the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Jack Taylor series from author Ken Bruen.
Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober—off booze, pills, powder, and nearly off cigarettes, too. The main reason he's been able to keep clean: his dealer's in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks
5) Priest
6) Cross
7) Sanctuary
8) The devil
12) The emerald lie
In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign...