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Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of The Guards (2001), the highly acclaimed first Jack Taylor novel. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His novel Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece (1997) is in production for Pilgrim Pictures, his "White Trilogy" has been bought by Channel 4, and The Guards is to be filmed in Ireland by De Facto Films.
Awards: Macavity (2010), Shamus (2007), Barry (2007) see all
Genres: Mystery
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Series
Inspector Brant
1. A White Arrest (1998)
2. Taming the Alien (1999)
3. The McDead (2000)
4. Blitz (2002)
5. Vixen (2003)
6. Calibre (2006)
7. Ammunition (2007)
1. A White Arrest (1998)
2. Taming the Alien (1999)
3. The McDead (2000)
4. Blitz (2002)
5. Vixen (2003)
6. Calibre (2006)
7. Ammunition (2007)
Jack Taylor
1. The Guards (2001)
2. The Killing of the Tinkers (2002)
3. The Magdalen Martyrs (2003)
4. The Dramatist (2004)
The Dead Room (2005)
5. Priest (2006)
6. Cross (2007)
7. Sanctuary (2008)
8. The Devil (2010)
9. Headstone (2011)
10. Purgatory (2013)
11. Green Hell (2015)
12. Emerald Lie (2016)
13. The Ghosts of Galway (2017)
14. In the Galway Silence (2018)
15. Galway Girl (2019)
16. A Galway Epiphany (2020)
Jack Taylor: A Mysterious Profile (2022)
17. Galway Confidential (2024)
18. Galway's Edge (2025)
1. The Guards (2001)
2. The Killing of the Tinkers (2002)
3. The Magdalen Martyrs (2003)
4. The Dramatist (2004)
The Dead Room (2005)
5. Priest (2006)
6. Cross (2007)
7. Sanctuary (2008)
8. The Devil (2010)
9. Headstone (2011)
10. Purgatory (2013)
11. Green Hell (2015)
12. Emerald Lie (2016)
13. The Ghosts of Galway (2017)
14. In the Galway Silence (2018)
15. Galway Girl (2019)
16. A Galway Epiphany (2020)
Jack Taylor: A Mysterious Profile (2022)
17. Galway Confidential (2024)
18. Galway's Edge (2025)
Novels
Shades of Grace (1993)
Martyrs (1994)
Rilke on Black (1996)
The Hackman Blues (1997)
Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (1998)
London Boulevard (2001)
Dispatching Baudelaire (2004)
American Skin (2006)
Once Were Cops (2008)
Tower (2009) (with Reed Farrel Coleman)
Inherit the Dead (2013) (with others)
Merrick (2014)
Martyrs (1994)
Rilke on Black (1996)
The Hackman Blues (1997)
Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (1998)
London Boulevard (2001)
Dispatching Baudelaire (2004)
American Skin (2006)
Once Were Cops (2008)
Tower (2009) (with Reed Farrel Coleman)
Inherit the Dead (2013) (with others)
Merrick (2014)
Collections
Funeral (1992)
Sherry (1994)
Time of Serena-May and Upon the Third Cross (1995)
A Fifth of Bruen (2006)
Sherry (1994)
Time of Serena-May and Upon the Third Cross (1995)
A Fifth of Bruen (2006)
Novellas and Short Stories
Series contributed to
Books containing stories by Ken Bruen
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016)
Classic Christmas Carols with a Twist of Crime
edited by
Otto Penzler
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Ken Bruen recommends
Small Town Sins (2023)
Ken Jaworowski
"A stunning novel. Think Peter Dexter blended with James Sallis. It is that good and beautifully written. The sort of novel where you want to underline whole passages. I'm going to be pressing this book on those I care about. It restored my joy in the mystery genre."
Sometimes People Die (2022)
Simon Stephenson
"Sometimes People Die blew me away and cost me a night's sleep as I read it on tenterhooks. Both a revelatory glimpse into the rigours and strains of medicine and a thrilling piece of entertainment, this astounding novel announces the arrival of a new Michael Crichton for the zeitgeist."
Carbon (2019)
Andrew Vachss
"(Carbon) is a stupendous piece of work, a genre-busting masterpiece that is awhole new direction in fiction. As astonishing as it is compulsivelyreadable and as always with Andrew Vachss, the compassion and empathyfor the vulnerable and victimized is heart-wrenching. May be the finestwork yet from the master of the art."
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