Jack Taylor series
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1)
The guards , Jack Taylor series volume 1
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Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"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. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings."
"Before long he's sunk into his...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to remain sober and overcome a debt to a local thug, Jack Taylor accepts a job tracking down a woman who once befriended the thug's mother, an assignment that proves increasingly challenging and dangerous.
4)
The dramatist , Jack Taylor series volume 4
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5) Priest
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
6)
Cross , Jack Taylor series volume 6
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7) Sanctuary
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
8) The devil
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Jack Taylor series volume 9
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
10) Purgatory
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.
11) Green hell
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 11
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
12) The emerald lie
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 12
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired 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 Red Book, currently...
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 14
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. 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,...
15) Galway girl
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 15
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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 when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor'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...
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Series
Jack Taylor series volume 16
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But 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, 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." People have become convinced that the two children seen tending to him are...
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Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that much of the world has changed since he last walked the streets of Galway. The pandemic had hit while he was under, devastating the lives of many in his beloved city and beyond. Now, as Jack tries to recover from the attack that put him in the hospital and absorb the incredible changes in the world around him, a woman approaches him with a distressing case: two local nuns have been bludgeoned by a...
18) Galway's Edge
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Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Edge, a shadow organization made up of the most powerful figures in Galway society, exists to rid the city of criminals and abusers who have evaded the law. Long wary of the organization, the Vatican is not pleased when rumors start swirling that one of the Catholic Church's own priests has joined its ranks. And who better to ask to intercede than the whiskey-swigging ex-cop who always seems to have one foot in the pub and another among Ireland's...