Ken Bruen





Ken Bruen

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Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of The Guards (2001), the highly acclaimed first Jack Taylor novel. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His novel Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece (1997) is in production for Pilgrim Pictures, his "White Trilogy" has been bought by Channel 4, and The Guards is to be filmed in Ireland by De Facto Films.

He has won Two Shamus awards by Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novel of the year for The Guards(2004) and The Dramatist(2007).

He has also received The Best series Award in February 2007 for the Jack Taylor novels from The Crime Writers Association


Average rating: 3.90 · 11,058 ratings · 1,368 reviews · 65 distinct works · Similar authors
The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,568 ratings — published 2001 — 22 editions
The Killing Of The Tinkers ...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 795 ratings — published 2002 — 18 editions
The Magdalen Martyrs (Jack ...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions
Priest (Jack Taylor, #5)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 603 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions
The Dramatist (Jack Taylor,...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
Cross (Jack Taylor, #6)
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”
Ken Bruen, The Killing Of The Tinkers

“The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.”
Ken Bruen

“I get through some print.”
Ken Bruen, The Guards



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