Ken Bruen
1) Headstone
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious 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.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 13
Publisher
The 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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.
4) The devil
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
PI Jack Taylor is called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K whom he remembers meeting at an airport. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.
5) Vixen
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
For the Southeast London police squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuous, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry--and the cops don't even know she exists.
Meanwhile, Inspector Roberts is helpless to stop the explosions and his subordinates aren't doing much better. Brant is consumed with an even-bigger-than-usual mean streak, and fast-rising...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a dark twist on the classic "Sunset Boulevard," Mitchell completes a prison sentence for a crime he does not remember committing and takes a job at the mansion of a faded movie actress before his violent past catches up with him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...