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Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
A portrait of the PI from the Shamus Award winner who created him: "They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor." -- The New York Times Book Review In this short work, Edgar Award finalist Ken... See More
Literature & Fiction
London Boulevard is a masterful work of double-dealing and suspense from Ken Bruen, one of the great crime writers of our time. Now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, written and directed by... See More
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... See More
Mystery
"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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
Literary Fiction
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... See More
Mystery
"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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
Mystery
"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... See More
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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
"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... See More
United States
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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Crime Fiction
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... See More
Mystery
In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns. Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that... See More
Suspense
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... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel. Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential... See More
Mystery
Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to... See More
Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a few enemies. So when a crazed gunman, hired by persons... See More
Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public tongue-lashing to a misbehaving child, or a parking lot... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Jack Taylor, devastated by the... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
"The disturbingly good new talent showcased in this volume bodes well for the future of the genre." -Publishers Weekly A collection of killer stories from some of today's hottest crime fiction writers, edited by grandmaster... See More