A Fifth of Bruen
By Ken Bruen
2006
First Published
4.01
Average Rating
360
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“[A] beautiful book... This is a must have for all [Bruen’s] fans.”—Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine “If you love complex, thought-provoking work, then you’ll find something in this collection to intrigue you. If you love Bruen, there’s no doubt you’ll already have cracked the spine.”—Russel McLean, Crime Scene Scotland 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.
Avg Rating
4.01
Number of Ratings
128
5 STARS
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Author
Ken Bruen
Author · 41 books
Ken Bruen, born in Galway in 1951, is the author of The Guards (2001), the highly acclaimed first Jack Taylor novel. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His novel Her Last Call to Louis Mac Niece (1997) is in production for Pilgrim Pictures, his "White Trilogy" has been bought by Channel 4, and The Guards is to be filmed in Ireland by De Facto Films. He has won Two Shamus awards by Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novel of the year for The Guards(2004) and The Dramatist(2007). He has also received The Best series Award in February 2007 for the Jack Taylor novels from The Crime Writers Association
