Jack Taylor Series

18 primary works • 19 total works
Jack Taylor, dismissed from the Garda Síochána (Irish police) for drinking, now finding things for people in Galway, Ireland, since “private eye” sounds too much like “informer” to the Irish.

Book 1

The Guards
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3.82 · 7070 Ratings · 715 Reviews · published 2001 · 41 editions
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from …

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    Book 2

    The Killing of the Tinkers
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    3.98     · 3462 Ratings · 275 Reviews · published 2002 · 16 editions
    When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guard…

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    Book 3

    The Magdalen Martyrs
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    4.04     · 2709 Ratings · 193 Reviews · published 2003 · 30 editions
    Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobr…

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    Book 4

    The Dramatist
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    4.02     · 2383 Ratings · 188 Reviews · published 2003 · 35 editions
    Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober---off b…

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    Book 5

    Priest
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    4.00     · 2126 Ratings · 179 Reviews · published 2006 · 37 editions
    Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turn…

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    Book 6

    Cross
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    4.06     · 1717 Ratings · 137 Reviews · published 2007 · 34 editions
    cross /kros/ n., v., & adj.
    1 an ancient instrumen…

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    Book 7

    Sanctuary
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    4.02     · 1376 Ratings · 115 Reviews · published 2008 · 25 editions
    When a letter containing a list of victims arrives…

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    Book 8

    The Devil
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    3.84     · 1318 Ratings · 135 Reviews · published 2010 · 33 editions
    The eighth novel in the award-winning Jack Taylor …

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    Book 9

    Headstone
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    3.97     · 1463 Ratings · 146 Reviews · published 2012 · 32 editions
    Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won num…

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    Book 10

    Purgatory
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    3.75     · 1104 Ratings · 141 Reviews · published 2013 · 27 editions
    Recovering from the severe mental and physical wou…

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    Book 11

    Green Hell
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    3.99     · 1089 Ratings · 137 Reviews · published 2015 · 18 editions
    Ireland’s master of poetic crime fiction, called “…

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    Book 12

    The Emerald Lie
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    3.88     · 971 Ratings · 130 Reviews · published 2016 · 7 editions
    Ken Bruen, the “Godfather of the modern Irish crim…

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    Book 13

    The Ghosts of Galway
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    3.81     · 1101 Ratings · 194 Reviews · published 2017 · 15 editions
    Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical …

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    Book 14

    In the Galway Silence
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    3.79     · 1202 Ratings · 221 Reviews · published 2018 · 16 editions
    After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has a…

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    Book 15

    Galway Girl
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    3.80     · 1172 Ratings · 219 Reviews · published 2019 · 14 editions
    Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life…

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    Book 16

    A Galway Epiphany
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    4.01     · 941 Ratings · 143 Reviews · published 2020 · 13 editions
    In the newest novel in Bruen's thrilling series, e…

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    Book 17

    Galway Confidential
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    4.13     · 626 Ratings · 94 Reviews · published 2024 · 11 editions
    Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that …

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    Book 18

    Galway's Edge
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    4.15     · 488 Ratings · 77 Reviews · 7 editions
    A secretive vigilante group called Edge cleanse…

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    Book 1-4

    The Galway Crime Thrillers, Books 1-4
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    4.06     · 33 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition
    Four gritty crime thrillers set on the cobbled str…

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