Books by Ken Bruen
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Bust (Max and Angela Book 20)
5 [IMPORTANT / VALUABLE] LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1) When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. 2) Don't use Drano to get rid of a dead body. 3) Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very... See More
First Thrills: Volume 2: Short Stories
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. From small-town crime stories to sweeping global conspiracies, this is a... See More
Jack Taylor: A Mysterious Profile (Mysterious Profiles)
A portrait of the PI from the Shamus Award winner who created him: "They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor." -- The New York Times Book Review In this short work, Edgar Award finalist Ken... See More
The Devil (Jack Taylor series Book 8)
America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: - but not for PI Jack Taylor, who's just been refused entry. Jack resumes his old life in Galway. But when he's called to investigate the... See More
Killer Year: Stories to Die For
"The disturbingly good new talent showcased in this volume bodes well for the future of the genre." -Publishers Weekly A collection of killer stories from some of today's hottest crime fiction writers, edited by grandmaster... See More
Pimp (Max and Angela)
Reteaming a decade after their award-nominated first collaboration, Bruen and Starr complete the saga of wannabe druglord Max Fisher and his one-time assistant Angela, now working in the capital of sin and depravity... See More
Sanctuary (Jack Taylor series Book 7)
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. He has enough to do just staying sane. His... See More
Purgatory: A Jack Taylor Noir Thriller (Jack Taylor series Book 10)
Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A drug pusher, a rapist, a loan shark, all targeted in what look like vigilante attacks. And the killer is writing to Jack... See More
Priest (Jack Taylor series Book 5)
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... See More
Headstone (Jack Taylor series Book 9)
Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them. 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. An... See More
Slide (Max and Angela Book 36)
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 and Angela's back in Ireland, hooking up with a... See More
London Boulevard (Film Tie in)
When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't remember, he reluctantly finds himself caught up with Robert Gant, a ruthless lowlife with violent plans. Attempting to stay... See More
The Max (Max and Angela Book 47)
When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with... See More
Rilke on Black
A poorly planned kidnapping turns bloody. Lisa is too good-looking not to be trouble. Nick falls for her as soon as he meets the lithe young black woman, and though their drug-fueled relationship quickly turns toxic, he... See More
Tower: A Novel
From opposite perspectives, two master authors spin a chilling tale. Nick's father is a stand-up Irishman -- once a cop, now a security guard in the World Trade Center's North Tower -- but Nick does not take after his old... See More
Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice
She's hot, well read, and absolutely mad -- and she won't let him go. Bank robber Cooper picks her up at the supermarket, where he spies her shoplifting and warns her that the store detective is watching her. She puts the... See More
The White Trilogy: A White Arrest, Taming the Alien, and The McDead
Two tough, aging cops take on London's thugs, killers, and mobsters in Ken Bruen's hard-as-nails White Trilogy. At sixty-two, Chief Inspector Roberts is nearly too old to be a cop, but he makes up for his age with a... See More
A Fifth of Bruen
An Irishman with an ebullient love of life draws inspiration from the literature and poetry of death. A born loser with an "ex-wife, an ex-child, and no excuses" accompanies his alcoholic brother on a startling plunge into... See More
Dispatching Baudelaire
Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend Brenda is a secretary. Their idea of a night on the town is to visit the local pizza parlour. But when Mike... See More
The Book of Virtue (Death Sentences: Short Stories to Die 1)
With his hated father dead, a man's life takes a dangerous turn. He doesn't cry when his father, Frank, dies. The old man was an abusive, self-absorbed drunk, and when cancer takes him to his deathbed, his son is there to... See More
Crimespree Magazine #3 and 4
The third and fourth issues of Crimespree Magazine are bundled together for the first time as an eBook for all you collectors. These issues featured an article from Vicki Hendricks about skydiving and a roundup of 2004... See More
In the Galway Silence
The latest Jack Taylor novel from the Godfather of Irish noir. After too much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor might have at long last found contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in... See More
Galway Girl
The latest Jack Taylor novel from the Godfather of Irish noir Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy... See More
Green Hell (Jack Taylor Mysteries Book 11)
Jack Taylor has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends has died and the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and other substances, and his firing from the Irish national... See More
The Killing of the Tinkers (Jack Taylor Mysteries Book 2)
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. A year later, Jack's back in Galway with a new leather jacket on his... See More
The Magdalene Martyrs (Jack Taylor Mysteries Book 3)
Jack Taylor is walking the delicate line of sobriety. Following a particularly dangerous stint in hospital, he thinks about kicking his drinking habit once and for all, but it's not long before he's back to his old ways. Yet... See More
The Emerald Lie (Jack Taylor Mysteries Book 12)
From the "Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel" (Irish Independent), The Emerald Lie introduces a villain of the most unusual sort: an Eton and Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, improper... See More
Requiems for the Departed
Irish Crime. Irish Myths. Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business. Watch the children of Conchobar return to... See More