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Ill-fated ex-cop Jack Taylor is broke and working nightshifts as a security guard when he receives an unexpected commission — find The Red Book, an infamous blasphemous text stolen from the Vatican archives. The thief, a rogue priest, is now believed to be hiding out in Galway. Despite Jack’s distaste for priests of any stripe, the money is just too good to turn down. It won’t be hard for a man with Jack’s skills to track down the errant churchman, but Jack has underestimated The Red Book’s toxic lure and will be powerless to stem the wave of violence unleashed in its wake — a wave that will engulf Jack and all those around him.

The South East London police squad are suffering collective burn out: Detective Sergeant Brant is hitting the blues and physically assaulting the police shrink. Chief Inspector Roberts’ wife has died in a horrific road accident and he takes solace in gut-rot red wine. Black WPC Falls becomes lethally involved with a junior member of the British National Party and the Super’s golden boy, PC McDonald, is investigating the death of a man he accidentally killed. Only Porter Nash’s star appears to be in the ascendancy. The team never had it so bad and when a serial killer takes his show on the road, things get worse. Nicknamed ‘The Blitz’, a vicious murderer is aiming for tabloid glory by killing cops. Harold Dunphy, ace crime reporter believes he’s on to the story of the decade and the police have never had more incentive to catch a serial killer.

Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. 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 convinced that the two children spotted tending to him are saintly, and the site of the accident sacred. The Catholic Church isn’t so sure, and Jack is commissioned to help find the children to verify the miracle or expose the stunt. But Jack isn’t the only one looking for these children. A fraudulent order of nuns needs them to legitimatize its sanctity and becomes involved with a dangerous arsonist. Soon, the building in which the children are living burns down. Jack returns to his old tricks, and his old demons, as his quest becomes personal.

Early novellas, short stories, and poetry by the two-time Edgar Award — nominated author of The Guards and London Boulevard. Includes All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose, considered Ken Bruen’s first foray into crime fiction.

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, as usual, 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 one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very different styles, but who are united in their common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ring leader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover, and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past. As sharp and sardonic as it is starkly bleak and violent, Galway Girl shows master raconteur Ken Bruen at his best: lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful.

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn’t remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for loan shark and general hardman Tommy Logan, a man with his own plans for Mitchell. Attempting to stay out of Logan’s way, Mitchell finds work at the Holland Park mansion of faded movie actress, Lillian Palmer, and her mysterious East European butler, Jordan. It isn’t long before Mitchell’s violent past catches up with him and people start getting hurt. When his disturbed sister Briony is threatened, Mitchell is forced to act.

Kate Mitchell’s in the process of kicking her heroin addiction — with the help of alcohol — when a letter arrives informing her that her aunt in Ireland has passed away and bequeathed her a home near the ocean. This could be the start of a new and better life for Kate, far away from Brooklyn, where she and her surviving brothers are each struggling with their own dark pasts. But Aunt Mary didn’t die peacefully — quite the opposite. The pair of thugs responsible for her murder had plans for her house: namely, turning it into a lovely seaside meth lab. One of Mary’s killers, however, finds his focus shifting when he spots a photo of the dead woman’s American niece, who bears a striking resemblance to the late opera singer Maria Callas, the beloved object of his obsession. When Kate and her brothers arrive to claim her inheritance, they’re going to find something other than a piece of paradise...

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, Shea, as he’s known, has his lifelong dream come true — he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shea’s dream is about to become New York’s nightmare. Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed Kebar for his liberal use of a short, lethal metal stick called a K-bar, the two unlikely partners become a devastatingly effective force in the war against crime. Kebar, however, harbors a dangerous secret: He’s sold out to the mob to help his sister. Her rape and beating have left her in a coma and the attack is pushing an already unstable Kebar over the edge just as Shea’s dark secrets threaten to boil over and into the streets of New York. Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast-paced, incomparable hard-boiled novel. This is Ken Bruen at his best.

BRADY’S BAD FUCKED I wrote it on the bedroom wall, in yellow day-glo marker. Nice colour, blended well with the years of nicotine. I haven’t taken my medication for the past week. If I couldn’t go a few days without the lithium, I was in deep shit. I’d gotten the job ten days earlier and it entailed a whack of pub-crawling. Booze and medication Is the worst of songs. Sing that! A job of pure simplicity. Find a white girl in Brixton. Piece of cake. What I should have done is doubled my medication and lit a candle to St Jude — maybe a lot of candles. Add in a lethal ex-con, an Irish builder obsessed with Gene Hackman, the biggest funeral Brixton has ever seen, and what you get is the Blues like they’ve never been sung before.

Jack Taylor, traumatised, bitter and hurling from his last case, has resolved to give up the finding business. However, he owes the local hard man a debt of honour and it appears easy enough: find “the Angel of the Magdalen” — a woman who helped the unfortunates incarcerated in the infamous laundry. He is also hired by a whizz kid to prove that his father’s death was no accident. Jack treats both cases as relatively simple affairs. He becomes involved with a woman who might literally be the death of him, runs dangerously foul of the cops. He is finally clean and sober but the unfolding events will not only shake his sobriety but bring him as close to death as he could ever have imagined.

Born into a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, outsiders in their own families, Nick and Todd forge a lifelong bond that persists in the face of crushing loss, blood, and betrayal. Low-level wiseguys with little ambition and even less of a future, the friends become major players in the potential destruction of an international crime syndicate that stretches from the cargo area at Kennedy Airport to the streets of New York, Belfast, and Boston to the alleyways of Mexican border towns. Their paths are littered with the bodies of undercover cops, snitches, lovers, and stone-cold killers.

After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last found contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and little sign of trouble on the horizon. But once again, trouble comes to him, this time in the form of a wealthy Frenchman who wants Jack to investigate the double-murder of his twin sons. Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriend’s nine-year-old son, and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character from his past. The plot is a chess game and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player: a vigilante called ‘Silence’, because he’s the last thing his victims will ever hear.

Stephen Blake comes from a long line of Galway Blakes, a family famous in history — or infamous — for jettisoning its Catholic roots to save their land from the English. As a young man he was always happiest when drinking with his mates, and a ready hand in a fight. With no particular plans in mind, he went up to study at Trinity College, and immediately afterward “took the king’s shilling” by joining the British army, and came out harder, leaner, and suspect in the eyes of his countrymen. Now nearly forty, he is a good man blown in bad directions. Out of misplaced loyalty he agrees to take part in an IRA bank heist. Doomed to failure from the start, it goes disastrously wrong when his friend is killed, and Stephen must leave Ireland, determined to reinvent himself as an American. Now he and girlfriend Siobhan, best friend Tommy, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a particularly American sort of psychopath named Dade are all on a collision course somewhere on the road between the dive bars of New York and the pitiless desert of the Southwest.

Митч — только что освободившийся из тюрьмы преступник. Он решает порвать с криминальным прошлым. Но его планы ломает встреча с Лилиан Палмер. Ранее известная актриса, а сегодня полузабытая звезда ведет уединенный образ жизни в своем поместье. С добровольно покинутым миром ее связывает только фанатично преданный хозяйке дворецкий. Ситуация сильно усложняется, когда актриса нанимает к себе в услужение Митча и их становится трое…

Кен Бруен — один из самых успешных современных авторов детективов, известный во всем мире как создатель нового ирландского нуара, написал блистательную, психологически насыщенную историю ярости, страсти, жестокости и бесконечного одиночества. По мотивам романа снят фильм с Кирой Найтли и Колином Фарреллом в главных ролях.

Бывший полицейский Джек Тейлор, уволенный из элитного подразделения «Стражи» за алкоголизм, работает частным детективом. После года, проведенного в Лондоне, он возвращается домой в Ирландию с новым кожаным пальто и пристрастием к кокаину. Однако с алкоголем и наркотиками придется завязать – в городской общине цыган произошла серия убийств, раскрыть которые под силу только такому профессионалу как Джек.

От автора лучших англоязычных детективов.

Для любителей нетривиальной прозы и черного юмора.

Частный детектив Джек Тейлор, уволенный из полиции за пристрастие к алкоголю, получает задание от крупного местного мафиози. Ему нужно найти «ангела» монастыря Святой Магдалины — женщину, помогавшую несчастным девушкам, попавшим в заточение.

Одновременно наследник огромного состояния нанимает его для расследования обстоятельств смерти своего отца. Он подозревает, что эта смерть не случайна.

Джек сумел отказаться от пьянства и наркотиков, но стремительно развивающиеся события не только могут нарушить с трудом достигнутое равновесие, но и ставят его жизнь под угрозу…

Полицейский участок юго-восточного Лондона охвачен гневом и ужасом: маньяк-убийца, вооружившись молотком, выслеживает копов одного за другим. В лучших традициях Гая Ричи и Квентина Тарантино стражам порядка придется спасать свои шкуры и пытаться остановить сумасшедшего Блица.

«Blitz. Без компромиссов» — новый роман Кена Бруена, одного из самых успешных авторов нуар-детективов. Сюжет, крепкий, как ирландский виски, покорил не только читателей по всему миру, но и кинозрителей. В экранизации роль дикого и беспощадного крутого Бранта сыграл брутальный Джейсон Стэтхем.