Ken Bruen

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Ken Bruen


Born
in Galway, Ireland
January 03, 1951

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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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Average rating: 3.86 · 51,656 ratings · 5,625 reviews · 139 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)

3.83 avg rating — 6,633 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions
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The Killing of the Tinkers ...

3.98 avg rating — 3,275 ratings — published 2002 — 29 editions
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The Magdalen Martyrs (Jack ...

4.03 avg rating — 2,555 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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The Dramatist (Jack Taylor,...

4.02 avg rating — 2,243 ratings — published 2003 — 31 editions
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Priest (Jack Taylor, #5)

3.99 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 2006 — 33 editions
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Cross (Jack Taylor, #6)

4.05 avg rating — 1,627 ratings — published 2007 — 33 editions
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Bust (Max & Angela #1)

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Headstone (Jack Taylor, #9)

3.97 avg rating — 1,389 ratings — published 2012 — 29 editions
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Sanctuary (Jack Taylor, #7)

4.03 avg rating — 1,316 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions
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The Devil (Jack Taylor, #8)

3.83 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 2010 — 28 editions
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“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

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

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

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