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(0)Ken Bruen
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, currently...
2) Galway girl
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 15
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 16
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become convinced that the two children seen tending to him are...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 14
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. 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,...
5) Callous
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Mitchell's in the process of kicking her heroin addiction--with the help of alcohol--when a letter arrives informing her that her aunt in Ireland has passed away and bequeathed her a home near the ocean. This could be the start of a new and better life for Kate, far away from Brooklyn, where she and her surviving brothers are each struggling with their own dark pasts. But Aunt Mary didn't die peacefully--quite the opposite. The pair of thugs...
6) Headstone
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 9
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 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...
7) The guards
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004, ©2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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 a favor in the soiled, sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't—can't, because the dealer's sister is dead, and the guards have
...Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Self-destructive, pigheaded, and overfond of the bottle, Jack Taylor ... is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory workers, a vicious vigilante group executing summary justice, and a sadistic nun dubbed "Lucifer"...
11) London Boulevard
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
An ex-con hired to look after a reclusive young actress finds himself falling in love, which puts him in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsters.