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Ken Bruen

Born

in Galway, Ireland

January 03, 1951

Website

http://kenbruenauthor.com/

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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 52,584 ratings · 5,725 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 6,747 ratings — published 2001 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing of the Tinkers (Jack Taylor, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 3,322 ratings — published 2002 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magdalen Martyrs (Jack Taylor, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 2,594 ratings — published 2003 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dramatist (Jack Taylor, #4) 4.02 avg rating — 2,289 ratings — published 2003 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Priest (Jack Taylor, #5) 3.99 avg rating — 2,049 ratings — published 2006 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cross (Jack Taylor, #6) 4.05 avg rating — 1,649 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bust (Max & Angela #1) by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 1,558 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Headstone (Jack Taylor, #9) 3.97 avg rating — 1,400 ratings — published 2012 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanctuary (Jack Taylor, #7) 4.03 avg rating — 1,337 ratings — published 2008 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil (Jack Taylor, #8) 3.82 avg rating — 1,277 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jack Taylor (18 books)
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Max & Angela (4 books)
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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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Voting for October 2018 group read - set in Ireland

In the Woods by Tana French

11 votes, 40.7%

White Bones by Graham Masterton

5 votes, 18.5%

Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor

4 votes, 14.8%

Borderlands by Brian McGilloway

2 votes, 7.4%

The Lost and the Blind by Declan Burke

2 votes, 7.4%

The Guards by Ken Bruen

2 votes, 7.4%

Can Anybody Help Me? by Sinéad Crowley

1 vote, 3.7%

Little Bones by Sam Blake

0 votes, 0.0%

27 total votes

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