Ken Bruen
Author of The Guards
About the Author
Ken Bruen was born in 1951 in Galway, Ireland. He was educated at Gormanston College, Meath and later at Trinity College Dublin where he earned a PhD. in metaphysics. He spent 25 years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Asia and South America. Ken Bruen's works include the well reeived White show more Trilogy and a book entitled The Guards, which won a Shamus Award .He also edited an anthology of stories set in Dublin entitled Dublin Noir. His writing speciality is crime fiction. Some of his other works include The Killing of the Tinkers, The Magdalen Martyrs, and The Dramatist and Priest, which was nominated for the 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. Ken Bruen is also the recipient of the first David Loeb Gooodis Award in 2008 for his dedication to his art. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press
Series
Works by Ken Bruen
Dogtown 2 copies
Wednesday's Child 2 copies
To Have and to Hold 2 copies
Danny Boy 1 copy
The Dead Room 1 copy
The Jack Taylor Series, Books 1-3: The Guards, The Killing of the Tinkers, and The Magdalen Martyrs 1 copy
McDead 1 copy
2012 1 copy
Fade to...Brooklyn 1 copy
Colt 1 copy
Miami Purity 1 copy
The Green Lie 1 copy
Angel Of Hospitality 1 copy
Time of the Green 1 copy
dublin nior 1 copy
Associated Works
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (2012) 247 copies
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (2009) — Contributor — 211 copies
Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores (2017) — Contributor — 192 copies
Borderland Noir: Stories & Essays of Love & Death across the Rio Grande (2015) — Contributor — 4 copies
Crime Factory Issue 1 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1951-01-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Country (for map)
- Ireland
- Birthplace
- Galway, Ireland
- Places of residence
- Galway, Ireland
- Education
- Trinity College, Dublin (Phd Metaphysics)
Gormanston College (County Meath) - Occupations
- novelist
English teacher - Agent
- Lukas Ortiz
- Short biography
- Ken Bruen besuchte das St. Joseph’s College in Galway City, später das Trinity College Dublin, an dem er über Metaphysik promovierte.
Bevor er zu schreiben begann, hatte er 25 Jahre lang als Englischlehrer in Afrika, Japan, Südostasien und Südamerika gelebt und gearbeitet. Heute ist er Mitglied eines literarischen Zirkels um Jason Starr, Reed Farrel Coleman und Allan Guthrie. Seine Bücher wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen geehrt, u. a. mit dem renommierten Shamus Award und dem französischen Grand prix de littérature policière.
Bruen lebt mit seiner Frau und einer gemeinsamen Tochter in seiner Geburtsstadt Galway.
Seit 2010 wird mit Jack Taylor eine auf seiner Jack-Taylor-Buchserie basierende Fernseh-Krimireihe produziert.
Members
Reviews
Galway confidential by Ken Bruen
Was thinking this might be the last Jack Taylor book, maybe it is
½
Not light reading. Jack Taylor-, ex guard, alcoholic, drug addict, private investigator.
Someone is killing Tinkers (Gypsies)
They hire Jack to find out who.
Wild story. Jack is a book and author quoting machine and a raving drunk.
Irish books are almost always fantastic.
Someone is killing Tinkers (Gypsies)
They hire Jack to find out who.
Wild story. Jack is a book and author quoting machine and a raving drunk.
Irish books are almost always fantastic.
Jack Taylor returns!
Ok, I never tire of Jack Taylor. Hard bitten, alcoholic ex Guardia turned detective, who lives around the edges, alternating between kindness, generosity, driven intent, all whilst shrugging his shoulders at the world that passes him by. He’s totally outrageous. A mostly cynical, Jameson drinking, hard living, all softened by his easily accepting Irish charm.
Jack’s been in a coma for the last eighteen months. The world has passed him by. He’s essentially missed Covid, the English Parliament destroying itself, Liz Truss and her shortest reign as Prime Minister in history, the craziness of Brexit, the war in Ukraine—all whilst he was non compus mentis.
Now he’s being asked to find out who’s killing nuns.
Oh, and who’s setting homeless people alight?
Welcome back, Jack! The world has been a poorer place with you out of action.
Bruen’s conversation style, hard hitting language, softened by the occasional poetic voice is a treat.
So love Jack Taylor novels!
Oh, and my reading images always default to actor Iain Glen. He’s seared into my mind as Jack.
A W.W. Norton ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.… (more)
Ok, I never tire of Jack Taylor. Hard bitten, alcoholic ex Guardia turned detective, who lives around the edges, alternating between kindness, generosity, driven intent, all whilst shrugging his shoulders at the world that passes him by. He’s totally outrageous. A mostly cynical, Jameson drinking, hard living, all softened by his easily accepting Irish charm.
Jack’s been in a coma for the last eighteen months. The world has passed him by. He’s essentially missed Covid, the English Parliament destroying itself, Liz Truss and her shortest reign as Prime Minister in history, the craziness of Brexit, the war in Ukraine—all whilst he was non compus mentis.
Now he’s being asked to find out who’s killing nuns.
Oh, and who’s setting homeless people alight?
Welcome back, Jack! The world has been a poorer place with you out of action.
Bruen’s conversation style, hard hitting language, softened by the occasional poetic voice is a treat.
So love Jack Taylor novels!
Oh, and my reading images always default to actor Iain Glen. He’s seared into my mind as Jack.
A W.W. Norton ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.… (more)
The crime itself didn’t seem to be the main part of the plot
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