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  • THE EMERALD LIE
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    THE EMERALD LIE
    KEN BRUEN
    An Irish crime novel featuring ex-cop Jack Taylor from an author "among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades" ( Los Angeles Review of Books) .   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...

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  • AMERICAN SKIN
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    AMERICAN SKIN
    KEN BRUEN
    At the beginning of Bruen's dark tribute to the Irish fascination with the American dream, Stephen Blake is on the run after a bank heist, hoping to disappear in the desert near Tucson. Blake has the money and his girlfriend, Siobhan, knows how to launder it. All he has to do is change his accent and his skin and pass as an American. But John A. Stapleton, contract killer for t...

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  • TOWER
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    TOWER
    KEN BRUEN / REED FARREL COLEMAN
    The author of Blitz and the author of the Jesse Stone novels collaborate on a "rough and profane read" about two childhood friends who become criminals (Daniel Woodrell).   Nick's Irish-American father, a Brooklyn rent-a-cop working security in the World Trade Center's North Tower, named him after a Hemingway hero. The old man must have been expecting a different kind of kid. B...

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  • THE MCDEAD
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    THE MCDEAD
    KEN BRUEN
    Chief Inspector Roberts combs London for the Irish gangster who killed his brother in "the most striking and original crime [series] of the decade" ( British GQ). With his personal life all but flushed down some deep dark hole, Chief Inspector Roberts is waiting for the next punch to the heart. Working with his Irish partner, Detective Sergeant Brant, in a London precinct so da...

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  • THE WHITE TRILOGY
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    THE WHITE TRILOGY
    KEN BRUEN
    "Hip, violent and funny vignettes of the mean streets of southeast London tie together this rowdy set of short novels" from the Irish crime writer ( Publishers Weekly). At sixty-two, Chief Inspector Roberts is nearly too old to be a cop, but he makes up for his age with a ferocity that the younger detectives cannot match. After four decades on the force, he has a daughter who h...

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  • THE BOOK OF VIRTUE
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    THE BOOK OF VIRTUE
    KEN BRUEN
    With his hated father dead, a man's life takes a dangerous turn. He doesn't cry when his father, Frank, dies. The old man was an abusive, self-absorbed drunk, and when cancer takes him to his deathbed, his son is there to watch. At Frank's final moment he leans over and whispers in his ear, letting the dying man know that he's glad to see him go.   His only inheritance is a hea...

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  • HER LAST CALL TO LOUIS MACNEICE
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    HER LAST CALL TO LOUIS MACNEICE
    KEN BRUEN
    The author of Blitz and the Jack Taylor novels delivers a "fast-paced, tough and explosive" tale of a killer couple ( The Irish Times).   Cooper likes Ed McBain novels, action movies, and robbing banks. Released from prison, he's back on the outside, and in business with another former con. They call themselves "Righteous Repo." It's so legit they even have an accountant. It's ...

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  • RILKE ON BLACK
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    RILKE ON BLACK
    KEN BRUEN
    A South London kidnapping goes violently awry in this "startlingly original crime novel" from the award-winning author of The Guards ( British GQ) .   As pretty, well read, and available as she was, most men would have passed on a foul-mouthed jailbait junkie like Lisa. Not Nick. A bouncer from southeast London, he knew what he liked. He went in with both eyes open and stayed t...

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  • GALWAY GIRL
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    GALWAY GIRL
    KEN BRUEN
    "They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor," and crime thrillers don't get any better than this ( The New York Times Book Review).   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, as usual, whe...

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  • THE GHOSTS OF GALWAY
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    THE GHOSTS OF GALWAY
    KEN BRUEN
    An ex-cop chases after a relic and a rogue priest: "They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor." — The New York Times Book Review Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. Now that he's going to live after all, he's going to need money, so using his ex-Garda credentials he manages to land a job as a...

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  • PURGATORY
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    PURGATORY
    KEN BRUEN
    An Irish ex-cop is lured into a violent game by a vengeful killer in this "excellent" crime novel by an Edgar Award finalist ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Former cop Jack Taylor is recovering from mental and physical wounds, as well as from addictions to a variety of substances. But this fragile existence is threatened when a vigilante begins targeting the scum of Gal...

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  • TAMING THE ALIEN
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    TAMING THE ALIEN
    KEN BRUEN
    Cops Roberts and Brant come back swinging in book two of the "hip, violent and funny " crime novel trilogy set on "the mean streets of southeast London" ( Publishers Weekly).   South London's Chief Inspector Roberts and his partner, the reckless and thuggish Irish Detective Sergeant Brant, are at odds with who has it worse: Roberts, with a mortgage in Dulwich, a pregnant daught...

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  • A WHITE ARREST
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    A WHITE ARREST
    KEN BRUEN
    A pair of rough cops hunts for a career-making arrest in this first novel of the "hip, violent and funny" trilogy set in Southeast London ( Publishers Weekly).   After four decades at the precinct, and close to forcible retirement, all London's Chief Inspector Roberts has to show for it is a hateful daughter, a faithless wife, and a dwindling bank account. With his partner, the...

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  • A GALWAY EPIPHANY
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    A GALWAY EPIPHANY
    KEN BRUEN
    "They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor, a man with bad habits who does good despite himself."―Marilyn Stasio,  The New York Times Book Review   Ex-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon ...

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  • IN THE GALWAY SILENCE
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    IN THE GALWAY SILENCE
    KEN BRUEN
    A New York Times Best Mystery of the Year: A hard-drinking detective deals with double murder and an elusive vigilante. 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 horiz...

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  • GREEN HELL
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    GREEN HELL
    KEN BRUEN
    "The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel . . . writes in machine gun fashion . . . reminiscent of the work of Raymond Chandler and Peter Cheyenne." — The Irish Times   In Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; a...

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  • HEADSTONE
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    HEADSTONE
    KEN BRUEN
    A dark, edgy novel from a master of Irish crime fiction who "is threatening to become a mass cult figure in the U.S. as well as a critical favorite" ( The Atlantic).   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 te...

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  • DUBLIN NOIR
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    DUBLIN NOIR
    KEN BRUEN
    Gritty crime fiction filled with dark Irish wit from Eoin Colfer, James O. Born, Laura Lippman, and many more.   The Irish master of noir Ken Bruen—and an all-star lineup of award-winning authors from both sides of the Atlantic—shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin in this collection of short fiction.   Dublin Noir introduces secret corners of a fascinating city and surpr...

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  • A FIFTH OF BRUEN
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    A FIFTH OF BRUEN
    KEN BRUEN
    A collection of novellas and stories from Shamus Award winner Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series and the “godfather of the modern Irish crime novel” (The Irish Times). An Irishman with an ebullient love of life draws inspiration from the literature and poetry of death. A born loser with an “ex-wife, an ex-child, and no excuses” accompanies his alcoholic brother on a st...

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  • CALLOUS
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    CALLOUS
    KEN BRUEN
    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 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...

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