Ken Bruen received a doctorate in metaphysics, taught English in South Africa, and then became a crime novelist. The critically acclaimed author of twelve previous Jack Taylor novels and The White Trilogy, he is the recipient of two Barry Awards and two Shamus Awards and has twice been a finalist for the Edgar Award. He lives in Galway, Ireland.
"Praise for A Galway Epiphany: "Another heady Irish stew spiked
with wayward epigrams, one-word paragraphs, and lots and lots of
Jamesons. Sláinte."--Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Ken Bruen and the Jack Taylor novels: "The addictive
pleasure is Ken Bruen's immaculate, rhythmic prose, his impeccable
timing, his adroit exploitation of current events and outrage that
fixes his tale in a particular moment. Apparently even without even
breathing hard, Bruen does what Hemingway hoped for but was only
occasionally able to achieve and then really only in the short
stories."--Reviewing the Evidence, on Galway Girl "Just as
Ireland--the home of my ancestors--has captured my heart, so have
Irish writers, and top among them is Ken Bruen . . . Do not miss
Galway Girl, a novel that shows Ken Bruen's writing at its finest
and Jack Taylor's life at its gruffest."--Criminal Element, on
Galway Girl "They don't come much tougher than Ken Bruen's Irish
roughneck, Jack Taylor, a man with bad habits who does good despite
himself."--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review, on In the
Galway Silence "[Bruen] writes short, rat-a-tat sentences that
suggest a meeting of Samuel Beckett and Ogden Nash."--Chicago
Tribune, on The Ghosts of Galway "No one writes crime novels quite
like Ken Bruen . . . I picture Bruen not so much writing as
transcribing the words of a sweet fallen angel that are whispered
feverishly into his ear."--Bookreporter, on The Emerald Lie "Taylor
is a classic figure: an ex-cop turned seedy private eye . . . The
book's pleasure comes from listening to Taylor's eloquent rants,
studded with references to songs and books. His voice is wry and
bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful."--Seattle Times, on Green
Hell "[Jack Taylor] has a gift for blarney, for plain speaking, for
poetic melancholy, for downing shots of Jameson's without ice, and
for pregnant one-word paragraphs. . .. A tough, tender, sorrowful
tour of the Bruen aquarium, with all manner of fantastic creatures
swimming in close proximity and touching only the fellow creatures
they want to devour. Just don't get too attached to the supporting
cast or read this installment just before a trip to
Galway."--Kirkus Reviews, on In the Galway Silence "Powered by
nonstop action and acerbic wit, [In the Galway Silence] is--like
the pints of Guinness that the saga's existentially tortured,
pill-popping antihero consumes on a daily basis--unfathomably dark.
[Jack Taylor is] a deeply flawed but endearing character whose
suffering is both tragic and transformative." --Publishers Weekly,
on In the Galway Silence "Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his
ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows
humor heard only at the foot of the gallows. The Emerald Lie is
pure Bruen, with its verbal tics, weird typography and unorthodox
wordplay."--New York Times Book Review, on The Emerald Lie "Bruen's
voice is unmistakable: finely chiseled paragraphs that more closely
resemble verse than prose . . . Bleaker than David Goodis, colder
than Derek Raymond, and funnier and more violent than Richard
Stark, Ken Bruen is among the most original and innovative noir
voices of the last two decades."--Los Angeles Review of Books, on
Headstone "Bruen gets more done in a paragraph, a word, even a
fragment of a word, than most writers get in an entire
four-hundred-page doorstop. If his prose was any sharper, your
eyeballs would bleed."--Mystery Scene, on Green Hell "The Godfather
of the modern Irish crime novel."--Irish Independent, on Green Hell
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