Ken Bruen

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born

Galway, Ireland

gender

male

website

http://www.kenbruen.com/index.php

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction

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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

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Books by Ken Bruen

Average rating: 3.89 · 7,132 ratings · 1,027 reviews · 54 distinct works

	The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 972 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Killing Of The Tinkers (Jack Taylor, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Magdalen Martyrs (Jack Taylor, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Priest (Jack Taylor, #5) 3.94 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Bust (Max & Angela, #1 - Hard Case Crime, #20) by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr 3.71 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Dramatist (Jack Taylor, #4) 4.07 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Once Were Cops 3.77 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Cross (Jack Taylor, #6) 4.04 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	My rating:
	London Boulevard 3.81 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Slide (Max & Angela, #2 - Hard Case Crime, #36) by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr 3.53 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Ken Bruen

Jack Taylor (9 books)
by Ken Bruen

3.99 avg rating — 3,583 ratings

Inspector Brant (7 books)
by Ken Bruen

4.02 avg rating — 952 ratings

Max & Angela (3 books)
by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr

3.64 avg rating — 776 ratings

Hard Case Crime (3 books)
by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr

3.64 avg rating — 776 ratings

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Quotes by Ken Bruen

“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

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

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

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