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Summary: In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign of bad grammar. Meanwhile, Jack is approached by a grieving father with a pocketful of cash on offer if Jack will help exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2016
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Summary: Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2011
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Summary: The decapitation killing of Father Joyce in the confessional of a Galway church shocks all of Ireland, including Jack Taylor, a man devastated by a recent personal loss, who finds himself investigating crimes of the past to solve this case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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Summary: "Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2019
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Summary: Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is producing a film based on her and Max's life story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2016
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Summary: With his surrogate son, Cody, in a hospital in a coma, a troubled Jack Taylor takes the opportunity to assist Ridge, his old friend from the guards, with a horrific case involving the crucifixion slaying of a boy in Galway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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Summary: Struggling to remain sober and overcome a debt to a local thug, Jack Taylor accepts a job tracking down a woman who once befriended the thug's mother, an assignment that proves increasingly challenging and dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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Summary: When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that it's got nothing to do with him, but when a child is added to the list Taylor doesn't hesitate to find the identity of the killer, and stop the killer at any cost. What he doesn't know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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Summary: Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2013
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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Summary: "When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorchester Pub. Co. 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodlines 2000
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017
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Summary: "Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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Summary: Jack Taylor is back in Galway and has sunk into his old patterns of drinking, but a gypsy arrives during a moment of Jack's clarity and reveals that young men of this gypsy's clan are turning up dead in the center of town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BRUSummary: Self-destructive, pigheaded, and over-fond of the bottle, Jack Taylor (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: "Open the files on seventeen new crime stories to probe the brutal and complex hearts of criminals ... Invisible Blood is a gripping collection of the compulsions of the criminal mind."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INVSummary: A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers. A fast-paced thriller set in contemporary London reflects the challenges faced by a group of police officers working in a modern, multicultural society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLISummary: The Stoker Award-winning author of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead and an all-new lineup of authors from every corner of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and resurrection -- and with zombies. The stellar stories in this volume include a tale set in the world of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TWESummary: Set three includes three all new feature-length mysteries. Cross - When a man is found crucified, Jack's investigations reveal that the dead man's brother was responsible for the death of Norma Mitchell. Headstone - Jack is on a race against time to locate a former nemesis, Ronan Meyers, who has been kidnapped and held for ransom. Purgatory - Jack is hired by the head of a large software...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017