Ken Bruen: Jack Taylor - A Mysterious Profile (USA 2022) From the Publisher: In this short work, Edgar Award finalist Ken Bruen -- "a Celtic Dashiell Hammett" -- takes us deeper into his character Jack Taylor, formerly of Ireland's police force, the Garda Síochána, now a living-on-the-edge private detective (The Philadelphia Inquirer). "Jack, as ja series know all too well, has a gift for blarney, for plain speaking, for poetic melancholy, for downing shots of Jameson's [sic] without ice, and for pregnant one-word paragraphs." -- Kirkus Reviews "Bruen's storytelling style, a stream-of-consciousness mix of prose and verse, strips away Galway's tourist-board facade and offers a darkly comic social commentary." -- Booklist "The Godfather of the modern Irish crime novel." -- The Irish Times "[Taylor's] voice is wry and bittersweet, but somehow always hopeful." -- The Seattle Times Ken Bruen: Jack Taylor - A Mysterious Profile. MysteriousPress / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504074360 (April, 2022), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 17 p.), $2.99.
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