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
3.82
· 7181 Ratings · 729 Reviews · published 2001 · 44 editions
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from …
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Book 2

The Killing of the Tinkers
3.98
· 3509 Ratings · 279 Reviews · published 2002 · 30 editions
When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guard…
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Book 3

The Magdalen Martyrs
4.04
· 2747 Ratings · 198 Reviews · published 2003 · 32 editions
Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobr…
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Book 4

The Dramatist
4.02
· 2413 Ratings · 192 Reviews · published 2003 · 36 editions
Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober---off b…
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Book 5

Priest
4.00
· 2152 Ratings · 181 Reviews · published 2006 · 38 editions
Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turn…
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Book 6

Cross
4.06
· 1734 Ratings · 139 Reviews · published 2007 · 36 editions
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1 an ancient instrumen…
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Book 7

Sanctuary
4.02
· 1389 Ratings · 117 Reviews · published 2008 · 25 editions
When a letter containing a list of victims arrives…
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Book 8

The Devil
3.84
· 1331 Ratings · 136 Reviews · published 2010 · 33 editions
The eighth novel in the award-winning Jack Taylor …
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Book 9

Headstone
3.97
· 1485 Ratings · 149 Reviews · published 2012 · 32 editions
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won num…
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Book 10

Purgatory
3.75
· 1118 Ratings · 142 Reviews · published 2013 · 30 editions
Recovering from the severe mental and physical wou…
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Book 11

Green Hell
3.99
· 1105 Ratings · 140 Reviews · published 2015 · 18 editions
Ireland’s master of poetic crime fiction, called “…
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Book 12

The Emerald Lie
3.88
· 986 Ratings · 132 Reviews · published 2016 · 7 editions
Ken Bruen, the “Godfather of the modern Irish crim…
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Book 13

The Ghosts of Galway
3.81
· 1130 Ratings · 198 Reviews · published 2017 · 15 editions
Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical …
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Book 14

In the Galway Silence
3.79
· 1224 Ratings · 226 Reviews · published 2018 · 16 editions
After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has a…
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Book 15

Galway Girl
3.80
· 1193 Ratings · 220 Reviews · published 2019 · 14 editions
Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life…
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Book 16

A Galway Epiphany
4.01
· 964 Ratings · 144 Reviews · published 2020 · 13 editions
In the newest novel in Bruen's thrilling series, e…
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Book 17

Galway Confidential
4.14
· 658 Ratings · 100 Reviews · published 2024 · 11 editions
Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that …
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Book 18

Galway's Edge
4.15
· 530 Ratings · 90 Reviews · 9 editions
A secretive vigilante group called Edge cleanse…
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Book 1-4

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