<div>A new anthology of cocaine stories from the creators of The Speed Chronicles&mdash;&ldquo;Caution: these stories are addicting&rdquo; (Harlan Coben). This ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon. Cocaine is the subject, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today&rsquo;s most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones. </div>

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<div>Gritty crime fiction filled with dark Irish wit from Eoin Colfer, James O. Born, Laura Lippman, and many more. The Irish master of noir Ken Bruen&mdash;and an all-star lineup of award-winning authors from both sides of the Atlantic&mdash;shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin in this collection of short fiction. Dublin Noir introduces secret corners of a fascinating city and surprise assaults on the &ldquo;Celtic Tiger&rdquo; of modern Irish prosperity. It explores how the Irish see themselves and how outsiders see them&mdash;and provides evidence that their storied literary reputation extends into the realm of mystery and crime writing. Brand new stories by Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr, Laura Lippman, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, Craig McDonald, Duane Swierczynski, and Reed Farrel Coleman</div>

Dublin Noir

<div>A dark, edgy novel from a master of Irish crime fiction who &ldquo;is threatening to become a mass cult figure in the U.S. as well as a critical favorite&rdquo; (The Atlantic). An elderly priest is nearly beaten to death. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises, and private investigator Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts a group calling itself Headstone, responsible for a series of random violent crimes in Galway, Ireland. As Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Taylor&rsquo;s life, he will need to call upon his own capacity for brutality in order to stop them, in this suspenseful novel from a writer called &ldquo;a Celtic Dashiell Hammett&rdquo; (The Philadelphia Inquirer). &ldquo;A nonstop rampage of intrigue, mayhem, lunacy and dark-dark-dark humor.&rdquo; &mdash;Shelf Awareness</div>

Headstone

<div>&ldquo;The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel . . . writes in machine gun fashion . . . reminiscent of the work of Raymond Chandler and Peter Cheyenne.&rdquo; &mdash;The Irish Times In Green Hell, Bruen&rsquo;s dark angel of a protagonist has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Guards, is ancient history. But Jack isn&rsquo;t about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead, he has taken up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at the University of Galway who has a violent habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. And when Jack rescues a preppy American student on a Rhodes Scholarship from a couple of kid thugs, he also unexpectedly gains a new sidekick, who abandons his thesis on Beckett to write a biography of Galway&rsquo;s most magnetic rogue. Between pub crawls and violent outbursts, Jack&rsquo;s vengeful plot against the professor soon spirals toward chaos. Enter Emerald, an edgy young Goth who could either be the answer to Jack&rsquo;s problems, or the last ripped stitch in his undoing . . . &ldquo;Taylor is a classic figure: an ex-cop turned seedy private eye . . . The book&rsquo;s pleasure comes from listening to Taylor&rsquo;s eloquent rants, studded with references to songs and books. His voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful.&rdquo; &mdash;The Seattle Times</div>

Green Hell

<div>An Irish crime novel featuring ex-cop Jack Taylor from an author &ldquo;among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades&rdquo; (Los Angeles Review of Books). In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign of bad grammar. Meanwhile, Jack is approached by a grieving father with a pocketful of cash on offer if Jack will help exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter&rsquo;s brutal rape and murder. Though hesitant to get involved, Jack agrees to get a read on the likely perpetrators. But Jack is soon derailed by the reappearance of Emily (previous alias: Emerald), the chameleon-like young woman who joined forces with Jack to take down her pedophile father in Green Hell and who remains passionate, clever, and utterly homicidal. She will use any sort of coercion to get Jack to conspire with her against the serial killer the Garda have nicknamed &ldquo;the Grammarian,&rdquo; but her most destructive obsession just might be Jack himself. &ldquo;Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows.&rdquo; &mdash;Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review</div>

The Emerald Lie

<div>&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t come much tougher than Ken Bruen&rsquo;s Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor,&rdquo; and crime thrillers don&rsquo;t get any better than this (The New York Times Book Review). 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 drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor&rsquo;s old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very different styles, but who are united their common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ring leader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover, and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past. As sharp and sardonic as it is starkly bleak and violent, Galway Girl shows master raconteur Ken Bruen at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful. </div>

Galway Girl

<div>An ex-cop chases after a relic and a rogue priest: &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t come much tougher than Ken Bruen&rsquo;s Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. Now that he&rsquo;s going to live after all, he&rsquo;s going to need money, so using his ex-Garda credentials he manages to land a job as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, the famously blasphemous &ldquo;Red Book,&rdquo; currently in the possession of a rogue priest hiding out in Galway after fleeing a position at the Vatican. Despite Jack&rsquo;s distaste for priests of any stripe, the money is too good to turn down. Then Em, the many-faced woman who&rsquo;s had a vise on Jack&rsquo;s heart and mind for the past two years, reappears and turns out to be entangled with the story of the Red Book, too&mdash;leading Jack down ever more mysterious and lethal pathways&mdash;in this &ldquo;dark and often hilarious&rdquo; series by an author who&rsquo;s won the Shamus, Macavity, and Barry Awards and been an Edgar Award finalist (Toronto Star). &ldquo;Bruen is in top form, and, although everything Taylor touches seems to turn to ash, he embodies such humanity that readers will be unable to resist rooting for him.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;The most mannered prose since the glory days of James Ellroy.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Ghosts of Galway

<div>&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t come much tougher than Ken Bruen&rsquo;s Irish roughneck, Jack Taylor, a man with bad habits who does good despite himself.&rdquo;&#8213;Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Ex-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway&rsquo;s Famine Memorial, 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 &ldquo;Miracle of Galway.&rdquo; People have become convinced that the two children spotted tending to him are saintly, and the site of the accident sacred. The Catholic Church isn&rsquo;t so sure, and Jack is commissioned to help find the children to verify the miracle&mdash;or expose the stunt. But Jack isn&rsquo;t the only one looking for these children, and he&rsquo;s about to plunge into a case involving an order of nuns, an arsonist, and a girl who may be more manipulative than miraculous. From the multiple Shamus Award winner known as &ldquo;the Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel&rdquo; (Irish Independent), this is a hard-edged, ceaselessly suspenseful mystery in the popular long-running series. &ldquo;A Celtic Dashiell Hammett.&rdquo;&mdash;Philadephia Inquirer</div>

A Galway Epiphany

<div>A New York Times Best Mystery of the Year: A hard-drinking detective deals with double murder and an elusive vigilante. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and little sign of trouble on the horizon&mdash;until a wealthy Frenchman comes to him with a request to investigate the double murder of his twin sons. Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriend&rsquo;s nine-year-old, and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character out of his past. The plot is one big chess game and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player: a vigilante called &ldquo;Silence,&rdquo; because he&rsquo;s the last thing his victims will ever hear. This new novel filled with suspense and pitch-dark humor comes from a Shamus Award-winning author who&rsquo;s been called &ldquo;hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility&rdquo; (TheNew York Times Book Review). &ldquo;The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel.&rdquo;&mdash;Irish Independent</div>

In the Galway Silence

<div>An Irish ex-cop is lured into a violent game by a vengeful killer in this &ldquo;excellent&rdquo; crime novel by an Edgar Award finalist (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Former cop Jack Taylor is recovering from mental and physical wounds, as well as from addictions to a variety of substances. But this fragile existence is threatened when a vigilante begins targeting the scum of Galway, signing mysterious notes with the moniker &ldquo;C33.&rdquo; The murderer addresses these cryptic letters to Jack, trying to goad him into joining the violent spree. While Jack tries to unravel the mystery and motives of this demented killer, he&rsquo;s also brought into the fold of an enigmatic tech billionaire who has been buying up massive amounts of property in Galway, seemingly in the hopes of offering this downtrodden city a better future. Yet if Jack has learned one thing living in Ireland, it&#39;s that people who outwardly claim to be on the side of righteousness are likely harboring far more nefarious motives beneath the surface. With the help of his friends, a former drug dealer-turned-zen master and a dogged police sergeant, Jack is determined to track down C33, even if it jeopardizes his livelihood, his friends, and the remaining shreds of his sanity&hellip; &ldquo;Noir fans will find what they love here.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist (starred review)</div>

Purgatory

<div>A South London kidnapping goes violently awry in this &ldquo;startlingly original crime novel&rdquo; from the award-winning author of The Guards (British GQ). As pretty, well read, and available as she was, most men would have passed on a foul-mouthed jailbait junkie like Lisa. Not Nick. A bouncer from southeast London, he knew what he liked. He went in with both eyes open and stayed there&mdash;even when she burned through his savings and cost him his job. Luckily, she had an idea for bringing in extra cash: kidnap a local African American bar owner, a pretentious, yoga obsessed, Rilke-spouting man of means with a white trophy wife. He deserved a good punch to the gut. However, it was Nick&rsquo;s bad idea to bring in his neighbor, a clean-cut, Reba McEntire&ndash;loving good old boy, and psycho to the bone. But not one of them anticipated Nick&rsquo;s ex-girlfriend, Bonny, who came in out of the blue with her own agenda to ignite the biggest spark in the plot. The question isn&rsquo;t who&rsquo;s going to fire the first shot. It&rsquo;s who&rsquo;s going to fire the last. &ldquo;Fast-paced, tough and pretty sexy&rdquo; (Pulp), Rilke on Black is further proof that the author of the Jack Taylor series &ldquo;has become the crime novelist to read&rdquo; (George Pelecanos). </div>

Rilke on Black

<div>The author of Blitz and the Jack Taylor novels delivers a &ldquo;fast-paced, tough and explosive&rdquo; tale of a killer couple (The Irish Times). Cooper likes Ed McBain novels, action movies, and robbing banks. Released from prison, he&rsquo;s back on the outside, and in business with another former con. They call themselves &ldquo;Righteous Repo.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s so legit they even have an accountant. It&rsquo;s decent work, but not as lucrative as the bank jobs they still pull on the side. Not as stimulating, either. But nothing gets Cooper&rsquo;s blood pumping faster than Cassie&mdash;an easy, all-American beauty with a bent for metaphysics, Irish poets, and taking risks. Cassie&rsquo;s also a professional shoplifter, slumming at a low-end South London shop when Cooper first lays eyes on her. After a single hookup comes the catch: Now that Cooper&rsquo;s had her, he&rsquo;s not allowed to touch another woman. He thinks she&rsquo;s quite a joker until he wakes up and finds Cassie&rsquo;s note. She drugged him, stole his pistol and his cash, and left him with another warning: She&rsquo;s not through with him. Not by a long shot. Only death will keep her away, so death it must be. Cooper and Cassie are made for each other. From the award-winning author of the Jack Taylor novels, Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice delivers &ldquo;pulp with an A level&rdquo; (The Guardian), once again confirming Bruen as &ldquo;the crime novelist to read&rdquo; (George Pelacanos). </div>

Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice

<div>&ldquo;Hip, violent and funny vignettes of the mean streets of southeast London tie together this rowdy set of short novels&rdquo; from the Irish crime writer (Publishers Weekly). At sixty-two, Chief Inspector Roberts is nearly too old to be a cop, but he makes up for his age with a ferocity that the younger detectives cannot match. After four decades on the force, he has a daughter who hates him, a wife who cheats, and a bank account that grows emptier every year. But on London&rsquo;s darker streets, Roberts is a force to be reckoned with. With his partner, the gleefully brutal Detective Sergeant Brant, Roberts looks for every policeman&rsquo;s dream: the White Arrest, a high-profile success that makes up for all their past failures. In A White Arrest, their target is a bat-wielding lunatic who knocks off drug dealers. In Taming the Alien, they hunt a mysterious hit man who earned his nickname by carrying out a hit while watching Ridley Scott&rsquo;s sci-fi classic. And in The McDead, Roberts and Brant set their sights on a cunning kingpin ruling London&rsquo;s southeast side. Gripping and gritty, Ken Bruen&rsquo;s White Trilogy is an unforgettable noir portrait of London&rsquo;s seedy underworld.</div>

The White Trilogy

<div>The author of Blitz and the author of the Jesse Stone novels collaborate on a &ldquo;rough and profane read&rdquo; about two childhood friends who become criminals (Daniel Woodrell). Nick&rsquo;s Irish-American father, a Brooklyn rent-a-cop working security in the World Trade Center&rsquo;s North Tower, named him after a Hemingway hero. The old man must have been expecting a different kind of kid. Because, like the R&amp;B song says, Nick was born under a bad sign. As aimless as a stray bullet, his only constants are &rsquo;Nam movies, pulp novels, and an unquestioning devotion to his childhood friend, Todd, a Jewish New York con artist with connections to the Boston mob. When Todd inducts Nick into his world of petty crime, it starts with reckless fun&mdash;scoring weed, low-level stings, and burglary. But the deeper they sink into the world of the syndicate, the more they realize how unknowable a friend can be, and how unprepared they are to rescue themselves, and their souls, from the gutter. Alternately telling this &ldquo;brutally poetic&rdquo; story from the perspectives of Nick and Todd, award-winning &ldquo;noir masters&rdquo; Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Colemen &ldquo;shine, dropping in-jokes, experimenting and displaying all the literary chops that have made their novels such cult favorites among mystery fans&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). </div>

Overdrive

Tower

<div>At the beginning of Bruen&rsquo;s dark tribute to the Irish fascination with the American dream, Stephen Blake is on the run after a bank heist, hoping to disappear in the desert near Tucson. Blake has the money and his girlfriend, Siobhan, knows how to launder it. All he has to do is change his accent and his skin and pass as an American. But John A. Stapleton, contract killer for the IRA, wants more than his share of the swag&mdash;and the psychotic Dade, obsessively devoted to the music of Tammy Wynette, is wandering the Southwest like a slaughter wagon. Noir master Bruen (The Guards) effortlessly moves his storyline back and forth in time, all his trademark pop-culture references in place, the banshee of existential agony wailing loudly. </div>

American Skin

<div>Chief Inspector Roberts combs London for the Irish gangster who killed his brother in &ldquo;the most striking and original crime [series] of the decade&rdquo; (British GQ). With his personal life all but flushed down some deep dark hole, Chief Inspector Roberts is waiting for the next punch to the heart. Working with his Irish partner, Detective Sergeant Brant, in a London precinct so dangerous even the pit bulls travel in pairs, Roberts is prepared for almost anything&mdash;just not the murder of his sad and wasted transient brother, Tony. The thug responsible for it is an ex-con named Logan who&rsquo;s established himself as the south side&rsquo;s smartest: a master of money laundering, quick hits, and outrunning the cops. His only weakness is his temper&mdash;and it&rsquo;s about to bring his sordid empire tumbling down. Roberts is going to see to that . . . &ldquo;Fans of British procedurals and noir novels will savor every speck of grit in this unrelenting crime novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist </div>

The McDead

<div>With his hated father dead, a man&rsquo;s life takes a dangerous turn. He doesn&rsquo;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 watch. At Frank&rsquo;s final moment he leans over and whispers in his ear, letting the dying man know that he&rsquo;s glad to see him go. His only inheritance is a heavy, leather-bound book. He has never seen it before, and has trouble believing that his brutal, ignorant father ever touched something so beautiful. But the volume is well-thumbed, full of aphorisms and advice written in the dead man&rsquo;s hand. Soon after he reads it, the son finds his life spiraling out of control. If he doesn&rsquo;t want to follow Daddy to the grave, he had best heed the lessons of the book. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.</div>

The Book of Virtue

<div>A pair of rough cops hunts for a career-making arrest in this first novel of the &ldquo;hip, violent and funny&rdquo; trilogy set in Southeast London (Publishers Weekly). After four decades at the precinct, and close to forcible retirement, all London&rsquo;s Chief Inspector Roberts has to show for it is a hateful daughter, a faithless wife, and a dwindling bank account. With his partner, the bullying Irish Detective Sergeant Brant, Roberts is still looking for every cop&rsquo;s badge of honor: the White Arrest&mdash;that career-changing bust that could make them chat show heroes. Or least wipe their dirty slates clean. And they have a lot to work with right now . . . A racist Death Wish&ndash;inspired street gang is lynching drug dealers from Brixton lampposts. And in the quiet suburb of Balham, a bat-wielding lunatic has been bashing in the skulls of a schoolboys&rsquo; cricket team. With any luck Roberts and Brant will make the front page&mdash;by any means necessary. With two unforgettable&mdash;and arguably irredeemable&mdash;tough London cops, award-winning author Ken Bruen again proves he&rsquo;s &ldquo;become the crime novelist to read&rdquo; (George Pelecanos).</div>

A White Arrest

<div>Cops Roberts and Brant come back swinging in book two of the &ldquo;hip, violent and funny&rdquo; crime novel trilogy set on &ldquo;the mean streets of southeast London&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). South London&rsquo;s Chief Inspector Roberts and his partner, the reckless and thuggish Irish Detective Sergeant Brant, are at odds with who has it worse: Roberts, with a mortgage in Dulwich, a pregnant daughter in boarding school, and a dire medical diagnosis; or Brant, relegated to desk duty after getting knifed in the back, and living to see his complete Ed McBain collection destroyed by a psycho with a baseball bat. That particular nut job has been dubbed the Alien, a hit man so named for carrying out a skull-smashing job while watching Ridley Scott&rsquo;s sci-fi classic, and hanging around in the spatter to finish the film. But this time the carnage isn&rsquo;t confined to southeast London. As Brant heads to New York by way of Dublin to catch the couple who knifed him and the Alien goes to San Francisco to pay a surprise visit to his former girlfriend, Bruen&rsquo;s broad, brutal canvas once again shows why he&rsquo;s been hailed as one of &ldquo;the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times Book Review).</div>

Taming the Alien

<div>A collection of novellas and stories from Shamus Award winner Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series and the &ldquo;godfather of the modern Irish crime novel&rdquo; (The Irish Times). An Irishman with an ebullient love of life draws inspiration from the literature and poetry of death. A born loser with an &ldquo;ex-wife, an ex-child, and no excuses&rdquo; accompanies his alcoholic brother on a startling plunge into liberating despair. A self-styled vigilante avenges the death of his wife and child by waging a one-man war against the London underworld. A whiskey-sotted cleric sets out to battle his sexual demons with a resolve that borders on the malevolent. &ldquo;Nobody writes like Ken Bruen,&rdquo; says the New York Times Book Review, and here, the author of The Emerald Lie and The Guards offers a taste of his wide-ranging skills. With his acrid barstool wit, literary allusions, and gut-punching twists, Bruen captures the Irish state of mind with bracing authenticity. Now, enthusiasts of his long-running series featuring Irish PI Jack Taylor&mdash;seven of which have been adapted for the screen&mdash;and new fans alike can discover Bruen&rsquo;s early works in an omnibus shaded with the crazy, violent, and melancholy poetry that has become his trademark. Hailed by the Los Angeles Book Review as one of &ldquo;the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades,&rdquo; Bruen is a two-time Shamus Award winner, an Edgar Award finalist, and a recipient of the Grand Prix de Litt&eacute;rature Polici&egrave;re. A Fifth of Bruen includes: Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities, Martyrs, Shades of Grace, Sherry and Other Stories, All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose, and The Time of Serena May &amp;Upon the Third Cross. </div>

A Fifth of Bruen

<div>Inheriting a Galway cottage may change a troubled woman&rsquo;s life&mdash;but not the way she hopes&mdash;in this thriller from an &ldquo;original, grimly hilarious&rdquo; author (The Washington Post). Kate Mitchell&rsquo;s in the process of kicking her heroin addiction&mdash;with the help of alcohol&mdash;when a letter arrives informing her that her aunt in Ireland has passed away and bequeathed her a home near the ocean. This could be the start of a new and better life for Kate, far away from Brooklyn, where she and her surviving brothers are each struggling with their own dark pasts. But Aunt Mary didn&rsquo;t die peacefully&mdash;quite the opposite. The pair of thugs responsible for her murder had plans for her house: namely, turning it into a lovely seaside meth lab. One of Mary&rsquo;s killers, however, finds his focus shifting when he spots a photo of the dead woman&rsquo;s American niece, who bears a striking resemblance to the late opera singer Maria Callas, the beloved object of his obsession. When Kate and her brothers arrive to claim her inheritance, they&rsquo;re going to find something other than a piece of paradise . . . &ldquo;Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Bruen has a rich and mordant writing style, full of offbeat humor.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Callous

<div>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 Bruen—“a Celtic Dashiell Hammett”—takes us deeper into his character Jack Taylor, formerly of Ireland’s police force, the Garda Síochána, now a living-on-the-edge private detective (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “Jack, as ja series know all too well, has a gift for blarney, for plain speaking, for poetic melancholy, for downing shots of Jameson’s [sic] without ice, and for pregnant one-word paragraphs.” —Kirkus Reviews “Bruen’s storytelling style, a stream-of-consciousness mix of prose and verse, strips away Galway’s tourist-board facade and offers a darkly comic social commentary.” —Booklist “The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel.” —The Irish Times  “[Taylor’s] voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful.” —The Seattle Times</div>

Jack Taylor

<div>London Boulevard is a masterful work of double-dealing and suspense from Ken Bruen, one of the great crime writers of our time. Now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, written and directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan of The Departed. When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't even remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for Tommy Logan, a ruthless loan shark lowlife with plans Mitchell wants nothing to do with. Attempting to stay out of Logan's way, he finds work at the Holland Park mansion of faded movie actress Lillian Palmer, where he has to deal with her mysterious butler, Jordan. It isn't long before Mitchell's violent past catches up with him and people start getting hurt. When his disturbed sister Briony is threatened, Mitchell is forced to act.</div>

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