Ken Bruen
Ken Bruen was born in Galway, Ireland in 1951. The author of sixteen novels, he spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, SE Asia and South America. He now lives in Galway City with his wife and daughter.
Ken Bruen's Books
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The Guards (1)
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster 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 p…
Priest (1)
Ireland, awash in cash and greed, no longer turns to the church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway church horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, has always believed himself to be beyond salvation. But a new job offers a f…
Vixen (0)
For the Southeast London police squad, it’s rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuos, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry—and the cops don’t even know she exists.
Meanwhile, Inspector Roberts is helpless to sto…
Blitz (0)
The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts’ wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a black female investigator in the notorious unit. When a serial …
The Killing of the Tinkers (0)
When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of “The Guards” his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of “The Killing of the Tinkers,” Jack’s back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a fe…
Cross (0)
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,…
Ammunition (0)
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 unknown, pumps a magazine full of bullets into Brant in a local pub, leaving him in grasping at l…
