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2) The guards
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Stuck in a rut after his dismissal from the Irish police force and still grieving over the death of his father, Jack Taylor finds renewal when an intriguing woman hires him based on his rumored talent for finding things.
3) Headstone
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
4) Cross
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the guards, with a horrific case involving the crucifixion slaying of a boy in Galway.
5) The devil
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
PI Jack Taylor is called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K whom he remembers meeting at an airport. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to remain sober and overcome a debt to a local thug, Jack Taylor accepts a job tracking down a woman who once befriended the thug's mother, an assignment that proves increasingly challenging and dangerous.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop Jack Taylor must investigate a serial killer who is murdering Galway residents guilty of using bad grammar. At the same time, a grieving father has hired Jack to exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter's rape and murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Clean and sober now that his dealer is in jail, Jack Taylor is stunned when the imprisoned man asks him to investigate the mysterious death of his sister, and becomes caught up in a scheme with deadly consequences for all concerned.
9) Purgatory
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.
10) Priest
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Clean and sober now that his dealer is in jail, Jack Taylor is stunned when the imprisoned man asks him to investigate the mysterious death of his sister, and becomes caught up in a scheme with deadly consequences for all concerned.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guards, the Irish police, are reluctant to investigate.
12) Sanctuary
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that it's got nothing to do with him, but when a child is added to the list Taylor doesn't hesitate to find the identity of the killer, and stop the killer at any cost. What he doesn't know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Taylor 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; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Garda, is ancient history. He takes up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at the University of Galway who has a violent habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. He rescues Boru Kennedy, a preppy...
Author
Series
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...
15) 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...
Author
Series
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,...
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