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Ken Bruen is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.

He was educated in St. Joseph's College in Galway city and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned a Ph.D. in metaphysics. Bruen travelled extensively, teaching English in many countries. His travels have been haphazard at times, including a stint in a Brazilian jail.

Bruen is part of a literary circle that includes Jason Starr, Reed Farrell Coleman, and Allan Guthrie.

Bruen's works include the well-received White Trilogy and the Shamus Award-winning The Guards. In 2006, Hard Case Crime released Bust, a collaboration between Bruen and New York crime author Jason Starr. Bruen's short story Words Are Cheap (2006) appears in the first issue of Murdaland. He has also edited an anthology of stories set in Dublin, Dublin Noir.

Other works of note include The Killing of the Tinkers, The Magdalen Martyrs, The Dramatist and Priest (nominated for the 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category "Best Novel"), all part of his Jack Taylor series, which began with The Guards. Set in Galway, the acclaimed series relates the adventures and misadventures of a disgraced former police officer working as a haphazard private investigator whose life has been marred by alcoholism and drug abuse. It chronicles the social change in Ireland in Bruen's own lifetime, paying particular attention to the decline of the Catholic church as a social and political power. Themes also explored include Ireland's economic prosperity from the mid 1990s onwards, although it is often portrayed as a force which has left Ireland as a materialistic and spiritually drained society which still harbours deep social inequality. This is the side of the Celtic Tiger best portrayed in Bruen's Ireland-based novels. Immigration is also a theme to be found in these works.

He lives in Galway, Ireland. He is married with a daughter.

His website: www.kenbruen.com

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Ken Bruen Bibliography

 

 

Jack Taylor Novels

 

1.     The Guards - 2003

2.     The Killing of the Tinkers - 2004

3.     The Magdalen Martyrs - 2005

4.     The Dramatist - 2006

5.     Priest - 2007

6.     Cross - 2008

7.     Sanctuary - 2009

8.     The Devil - 2010

9.     Headstone - 2011

 

 

Brant Novels

 

1.     A White Arrest - 2003

2.     Taming the Alien - 2003

3.     The McDead - 2003

4.     The White Trilogy - 2003 (encompasses A White Arrest, Taming the Alien, and The McDead)

5.     Blitz - 2004

6.     Vixen - 2005

7.     Calibre - 2006

8.     Ammunition - 2007

 

 

Crime Novels

 

·         Rilke on Black - 1997

·         The Hackman Blues - 1997

·         Her Last Call to Louis Macneice - 1997

·         London Boulevard - 2001

·         Dispatching Baudelaire - 2004 (UK)

·         American Skin - 2006

·         Once Were Cops - 2008

·         The Tower - 2009

 

 

Max & Angela Novels

 

1.     Bust - 2006

2.     Slide (with Jason Starr) - 2007

3.     The Max (with Jason Starr) - 2008

 

 

Short Stories and Collections

 

·         The Dead Room - 2005

·         Murder by the Book - 2005

·         A Fifth of Bruen - 2006

 

 

Non-Fiction

 

·         Down These Green Streets - 2011

 

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