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1) The devil
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
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
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
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 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 famously blasphemous "Red Book," currently in the possession...
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Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In the new novel Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist has again 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 Guards, is ancient history. But Jack isn't about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead, he has taken up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
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"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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007], ©2004
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 called it...
7) Headstone
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
8) Galway Girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2019.
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, as usual, 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...
10) Cross
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption, his surrogate son, Cody, is lying in the hospital in a coma. At least he still has Ridge, his old friend from the Guards, though theirs is an unorthodox relationship. When she tells him that a boy has been crucified in Galway city, he agrees to help her search for the killer.
Jack's investigations take him to many of his old haunts where he encounters ghosts, both...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Set three includes three all new feature-length mysteries. Cross - When a man is found crucified, Jack's investigations reveal that the dead man's brother was responsible for the death of Norma Mitchell. Headstone - Jack is on a race against time to locate a former nemesis, Ronan Meyers, who has been kidnapped and held for ransom. Purgatory - Jack is hired by the head of a large software company to investigate the theft of valuable data.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Jack Taylor is a former cop turned private investigator with little to show for his time in the Irish Guards. Few of his former colleagues have any regard for Taylor. The exception is his friend Garda Kate Noonan, though even she has to walk a fine line. Six months sober, Taylor takes on cases with the help of his young assistant, Cody, even while he worries about his elderly mother. Try as he might, the ex-cop from Galway finds that in his hometown,...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
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"...
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Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
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...
16) The guards
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"Still stinging from his unceremonious ousting from the Garda Siochana, and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. He is teetering on the brink of his life's sharpest edges, his memories of the past cutting deep into his soul and his prospects for the future non-existent. Until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange request and a rumour about Jack's...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
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.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor novels volume 17
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Irish detective Jack Taylor awakens from a coma to discover that his sleuthing services are needed after two local nuns are found bludgeoned by a hammer.
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