The Magdalen Martyrs (Jack Taylor) - Hardcover

Bruen, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312316453 ISBN 13: 9780312316457

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2005

Synopsis

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. By the author of The Killing of the Tinkers. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

Bruen is an original, grimly hilarious and gloriously Irish. -- Washington Post

Crime book of the year...Gripping, brutal and very funny, you can taste the futility in this Guinness noir. -- David Honeybone, The Age (Australia)

Hard-boiled, eccentric, darkly comic: Bruen bows to but doesn’t just mimic James M. Cain and the other great noirists in a breakout novel not to be missed. -- Kirkus Reviews

Ireland's version of Scotland's Ian Rankin...Outstanding -- Publishers' Weekly, New York

Ireland's version of Scotland’s Ian Rankin. -- Publishers Weekly

Irish writer Ken Bruen is the finest purveyor of intelligent Brit-noir. -- The Big Issue

Ken Bruen [is ] a terrific writer and The Guards is one of the most mesmerizing works of crime fiction I’ve ever read... -- James W. Hall, author of Blackwater Sound

Selected as one of "Six of the Best – independently published authors tipped to succeed" -- Publishing News

The novel is really the journey of its hero’s dark night of the soul. -- Marliyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher:

NEW BOOK FROM HOTTEST NEW NAME IN CRIME FICTION

The hottest new name in crime fiction in the US is Irish author Ken Bruen, whose novel The Guards is getting rave reviews since its publication last month by the Minotaur imprint of St Martin’s Press. The Guards, set in Galway is the first of a trilogy which features the disgraced alcoholic ex-cop, Jack Taylor. The third and latest book in the series, The Magdalen Martyrs, will be published in March.

It’s not only in the US that Ken Bruen and Jack Taylor are wowing readers. In Australia publishers Duffy and Snellgrove have signed up Australian rights in all three Jack Taylor novels. International interest extends also to translation rights, with Italian rights in the trilogy sold to Frassinelli, French rights to Gallimard’s Serie Noire, and even Albanian rights have been sold. Ken Bruen is the author of nine previous novels, which were all published in London, but it is with The Guards that his international career as a writer has taken off.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312316453
• ISBN 13: 9780312316457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288