Headstone
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An elderly priest is nearly beaten to death. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises, and private investigator Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts a group calling itself Headstone, responsible for a series of random violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
As Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Taylor’s life, he will need to call upon his own capacity for brutality in order to stop them, in this suspenseful novel from a writer called “a Celtic Dashiell Hammett” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
“A nonstop rampage of intrigue, mayhem, lunacy and dark-dark-dark humor.” —Shelf Awareness
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Ken Bruen. (2011). Headstone. Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ken Bruen. 2011. Headstone. Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ken Bruen, Headstone. Grove Atlantic, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ken Bruen. Headstone. Grove Atlantic, 2011.
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- bioText: Ken Bruen (b. 1951) is one of the most prominent Irish crime writers of the last two decades. Born in Galway, he spent twenty-five years traveling the world before he began writing in the mid 1990s. As an English teacher, Bruen worked in South Africa, Japan, and South America, where he once spent a short time in a Brazilian jail. He has two long-running series: one starring a disgraced former policeman named Jack Taylor, the other a London police detective named Inspector Brant. Praised for their sharp insight into the darker side of today’s prosperous Ireland, Bruen’s novels are marked by grim atmosphere and clipped prose. Among the best known are his White Trilogy (1998–2000) and The Guards (2001), the Shamus award-winning first novel in the Jack Taylor series. Bruen continues to live and work in Galway.
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As Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Taylor’s life, he will need to call upon his own capacity for brutality in order to stop them, in this suspenseful novel from a writer called “a Celtic Dashiell Hammett” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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August 29, 2011
Irish author Bruen’s hard-hitting ninth Jack Taylor novel (after The Devil) finds the Galway PI coping with alcoholism, a permanent limp, hearing loss, and emotional scars that continually threaten to take him down. For once, however, Taylor appears to have found a promising love interest in Laura, an American-born crime novelist, with whom he’s recently enjoyed a romantic idyll in Paris. Of course, moments of grace are fleeting in Bruen’s world, and things rapidly head south after Taylor receives a miniature gravestone in the post, courtesy of a group of psychopaths calling themselves “Headstone.” Led by a fanatic recidivist criminal from a previous Taylor case, they target the “weak,” including the handicapped, the mentally ill, and the homeless. Now they have their sights set on Taylor and everyone close to him. That the plot is a tad cartoonish and over-the-top scarcely matters in a remarkable series that at heart is about one man’s reckoning with a lifetime of pain and loss in a rapidly changing Ireland.
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Mystery champion Otto Penzler recently bought back the Mysterious Press, which he founded in 1975 and then sold; he's relaunching it with Grove Atlantic. Among the new imprint's first books is this latest in Irish crime writer Bruen's Jack Taylor series, which debuted with The Guards, a Shamus winner and Edgar, Macavity, and Barry finalist. Here, Jack is up against a completely amoral bunch called Headstone that's terrorizing Galway. A brief, hard-bitten extract turned my blood to ice. Definitely buy for your thriller readers.
Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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September 1, 2011
It took the devil himself (The Devil, 2010) to distract Jack Taylor from his dyspeptic, fatalistic, and often hilarious existential screeds against the new Ireland, the institutional Catholic Church, his own failings, and the fact that almost everyone he ever cared about is dead. Now Jack is distracted again but in a new way: he is in love! I don't do happy. Yet he is coming close until one day the mail arrives, and Jack gets a small package containing a miniature headstone, prompting him to throw back the Jameson-Guinness-Xanax cocktails with abandon. When he is abducted, beaten, and has two fingers sheared off his hand, the cocktails serve as painkillers. Many drinks and drugs later, he divines that his assailants plan to commit the first Irish Columbine, targeting a special-needs school. This one is vintage Bruen. Jack's week in Paris with his new love is eloquently described. Subplots involving Ireland's cratered economy and corrupt priests fuel fine new rants, and Taylor muses about books worth reading and the joys of Irish rock 'n' roll. A must for the Bruen faithful.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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Award-winning author Bruen brings back the intrepid Jack Taylor (The Devil) to figure out a brutal series of hate crimes, seemingly random, in Galway, Ireland. Even Jack will be flummoxed by the pure evil he's forced to confront. [See Prepub Alert, 4/4/11.]
Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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As Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Taylor’s life, he will need to call upon his own capacity for brutality in order to stop them, in this suspenseful novel from a writer called “a Celtic Dashiell Hammett” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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