Ken Bruen

Still stinging from his 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....

When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath....

An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan.

Jack Taylor, traumatised, bitter and hurting from his last case, has resolved to give up the finding business. However, he owes the local hard man a debt of honour....

America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons....

Ireland is no longer the land of saints and scholars. Now, in an era of prosperity....

Once again, trouble comes to Jack Taylor - this time in the form of a wealthy Frenchman who wants Jack to investigate the double-murder of his twin sons....

Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. And the killer is writing to Jack, signing their name: C-33....

The impossible has happened: Jack Taylor is living clean and dating a mature woman. Rumour suggests he is even attending mass....

When Jack Taylor awakes from a coma following an attack that left him in hospital, much of the world has changed. The Covid pandemic has devastated the lives of many in his beloved city of Galway and beyond.

Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer....

Jack Taylor, a disgraced ex-cop in Galway, has slid further down the slope of despair. After a year in London he returns to his home town of Galway with a leather coat and a coke habit.....

On a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial and left in a coma - but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called “Miracle of Galway”....

Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption - his surrogate son, Cody - is lying in hospital in a coma....

Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head....

Two guards; one nun; one judge. When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, PI Jack Taylor is sickened, but tells himself the list has nothing to do with him....

Jack Taylor has again hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him. But Jack isn't about to embark on a self-improvement plan....

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack....

The Cop Detective Sergeant Brant is tough and uncompromising, as sleazy and ruthless as the villains he’s out to get....

As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt....