In the Galway Silence
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After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and little sign of trouble on the horizon—until a wealthy Frenchman comes to him with a request to investigate the double murder of his twin sons.
Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriend’s nine-year-old, and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character out of his past. The plot is one big chess game and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player: a vigilante called “Silence,” because he’s the last thing his victims will ever hear.
This new novel filled with suspense and pitch-dark humor comes from a Shamus Award-winning author who’s been called “hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
“The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel.”—Irish Independent
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Ken Bruen. (2018). In the Galway Silence. Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ken Bruen. 2018. In the Galway Silence. Grove Atlantic.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ken Bruen, In the Galway Silence. Grove Atlantic, 2018.
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Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriend’s nine-year-old, and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character out of his past. The plot is one big chess game and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player: a vigilante called “Silence,” because he’s the last thing his victims will ever hear.
This new novel filled with suspense and pitch-dark humor comes from a Shamus Award-winning author who’s been called “hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
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Powered by nonstop action and acerbic wit, Edgar-finalist Bruen’s 14th novel featuring ex-cop Jack Taylor (after 2017’s The Ghosts of Galway) is—like the pints of Guinness that the saga’s existentially tortured, pill-popping antihero consumes on a daily basis—unfathomably dark. When the woman he cares for, a speech therapist named Marion, leaves Ireland to attend a conference in the States, so too does any semblance of stability or contentment in Taylor’s life. He’s asked to investigate the horrific murder of a man’s adult twin sons, two morally bankrupt Menendez brothers wannabes; Marion’s bratty nine-year old son is abducted by a pedophile; his ex-wife shows up with a daughter he didn’t know he had; and a serial killer known as the Silence begins a deadly chess game in which he’s an unwilling participant. Bloody chaos ensues. Readers who can get past the decidedly nonlinear and at times downright muddled narrative will find a deeply flawed but endear-
ing character whose suffering is both tragic and transformative. Agent: Lukas Ortiz, Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency.
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Bruen's latest dip into the murky waters of Galway kicks off with alcoholic shamus Jack Taylor's literal dip in Claddagh Basin to pull out a man apparently bent on suicide. Things don't go well for either the rescued or the rescuer.Walter Tevis may think that now that Jack's saved his life, the man is responsible for him. But Jack hasn't excelled in his responsibilities toward his ex-wife, Kiki, or his late girlfriend, Emerald (The Ghosts of Galway, 2017), or his present lover, Marion, and there's no reason he'll do any better by Tevis. Jack may have clicked with Marion, but he strikes out with her son, Joffrey, and the distance between them will become an issue when the boy's targeted by defrocked pedophile Peter Boyne. Nor does Jack want the responsibility of looking into the murders of hedge fund scammer Pierre Renaud's twin sons, Jean and Claude, tossed off a pier by a man in a wheelchair who added a sign saying, "The Irish can abide almost anything save silence." Jack, as fans of this long-running series know all too well, has a gift for blarney, for plain speaking, for poetic melancholy, for downing shots of Jameson's without ice, and for pregnant one-word paragraphs. But responsibility, as even Harley Harlow, the documentarian following him around in the hope of filming his life, knows, isn't really in his wheelhouse, and when Kiki hooks up with sociopathic killer Michael Ian Allen, all sorts of disturbing new possibilities arise.A tough, tender, sorrowful tour of the Bruen aquarium, with all manner of fantastic creatures swimming in close proximity and touching only the fellow creatures they want to devour. Just don't get too attached to the supporting cast or read this installment just before a trip to Galway.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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