The Killing of the Tinkers

Literature & Fiction

Ken Bruen

Contemporary

Thorndike Press

The Dramatist

Seems impossible but Jack Taylor is sober--off booze and pills, and nearly off cigarettes. One reason: his dealer's in jail. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't, can't, because the man's sister is dead and the guards have called it death by misadventure. But he says that can't be true and begs Jack to see what he can find. Finding is what Jack does to make a living, with varying levels of success. He's reluctant, yet agrees to the favor, though he can't possibly know the deadly consequences to which this simple request will lead.

Sound Library

In the third Jack Taylor novel from acclaimed crime writer Ken Bruen, Jack has sunk to all new lows with his alcoholism. Knowing his next visit to the hospital will be his last, his days of deep depression are punctuated only by nights of tense insomnia. But when he gets a tip off about a missing girl named Rita Monroe, his ex-cop brain pulls his body into action. Rita had been one of the Magdalen girls, a group of unmarried mothers who had been consigned into slavery in a nun-run laundry. With his uncanny ability to look in all the right places, Jack sets out on Rita's trail.

The Magdalen Martyrs

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Brandon/Mount Eagle

The impossible has happened: Jack Taylor is living clean and dating a mature woman. Rumour suggests he is even attending mass... The accidental deaths of two students appear random, tragic events, except that in each case a copy of a book by John Millington Synge is found beneath the body. Jack begins to believe that 'The Dramatist', a calculating killer, is out there, enticing him to play. As the case twists and turns Jack's refuge, the city of Galway, now demands he sacrifice the only love he's maintained, and while Iraq burns, he seems a step away from the abyss. The fourth Jack Taylow novel.

Mystery

Brandon Books

“Some [of the stories] are hilarious; many are sad; all are the kind of stuff that makes Miss Marple look like a Girl Scout.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
An original anthology.
A collection of twenty-seven original “geezer noir” stories by some of today’s top crime writers, including John Harvey, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Colin Cotterill, and more.
Bill Crider’s “Cranked” was nominated for the Edgar and Anthony awards and won the Derringer Award. Megan Abbott’s “Policy” was nominated for the Anthony Award and became the basis for her novel Queenpin, which won the 2008 Edgar Award.

Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir

Laura Lippman

MARK BILLINGHAM

JEFF ABBOTT

Duane Swierczynski

Victor Gischler

COLIN COTTERILL

Reed Farrel Coleman

Jason Starr

Steve Brewer

Short Stories & Anthologies

Busted Flush Press, LLC

Inherit the Dead

CHARLAINE HARRIS

JOHN CONNOLLY

C.J. Box

MAX ALLAN COLLINS

LEE CHILD

Marcia Clark

Stephen L. Carter

Alafair Burke

Lawrence, Block

Heather, Graham

Val. McDermid

Bryan Gruley

Simon Schuster(uk)

Perry Christo is a PI with a past. A one-time NYPD homicide cop, his career was ruined when a cops-on-the-take scandal ripped through the department. Though innocent, Perry had no way to prove it, and when he lost his job it was the last nail in the coffin of a strained marriage - his wife left him and took their young daughter with her. In order to drown his anger and grief, Perry throws himself into mindless work as a private investigator for petty crimes. But one day, a call from an Upper East Side matron, Julia Drusilla, throws his world upside down.

DANA STABENOW

Jonathan Santlofer

LISA UNGER

Sarah Weinman

mary-higgins-clark

Heather Graham Lawrence Block

Simon Schuster Ltd

Listening to Bust will teach you five valuable lessons: when you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath; don't use Drano to get rid of a dead body; those locks on hotel room doors aren't very secure; a curly blond wig isn't much of a disguise; and secrets can kill.

Bust (Max and Angela Series, Book 1)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

The Book of Virtue

The Mysterious Bookshop

Book Of Virtue

Head of Zeus

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