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Author
Series
Jack Taylor novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, currently...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 15
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 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...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that it's got nothing to do with him, but when a child is added to the list Taylor doesn't hesitate to find the identity of the killer, and stop the killer at any cost. What he doesn't know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 16
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
385 pages
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop-turned-PI 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, 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...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor novels volume 14
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at 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. 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...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor novels volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
PI Jack Taylor is called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K whom he remembers meeting at an airport. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2001
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Síochána — the Guards, Ireland’s police force — and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland’s best private investigator, not to mention its first — Irish history, full of betrayal and espionage, discourages any profession so closely related...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober -- off booze, pills, powder, and nearly off cigarettes, too. The main reason he's been able to keep clean: his dealer's in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the soiled, sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't, can't, because the dealer's sister is dead, and the guards have called...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 9
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An elderly priest is nearly beaten to death. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises, and private investigator Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts a group calling itself Headstone, responsible for a series of random violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
As Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Taylor’s life, he will need to call...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned. Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cross (kros/ noun, verb, & adjective) means an ancient instrument of torture, or, in a very bad humor, or, a punch thrown across an opponent's punch. Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption -- his surrogate son, Cody -- is lying in hospital in a coma. At least he still has Ridge, his old friend from the Guards, though theirs is an unorthodox relationship. When she tells him that a boy has been crucified...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, has always believed himself to be beyond salvation. But a new job offers a fresh start, and an unexpected partnership provides hope that his one desperate vision -- of family -- might yet be fulfilled....
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that much of the world has changed since he last walked the streets of Galway. The pandemic had hit while he was under, devastating the lives of many in his beloved city and beyond. Now, as Jack tries to recover from the attack that put him in the hospital and absorb the incredible changes in the world around him, a woman approaches him with a distressing case: two local nuns have been bludgeoned by a...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings. Before long he's sunk into his old patterns,...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 16
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. 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 seen tending to him are...
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