Ken Bruen

	Ken Bruen [1951-]
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	Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James Roberts in London's southeast precinct:
	A White Arrest¹ (1998) Taming the Alien¹ (1999) The McDead¹ (2000) Blitz (2002)	Vixen (2003) Calibre (2006) Ammunition (2007)
	1. The White Trilogy

	Jack Taylor, dismissed from the Garda Síochána (Irish police) for drinking, now finding things for people in Galway, Ireland, since “private eye” sounds too much like “informer” to the Irish:
	The Guards (2001) [review] 2004 Shamus Award for Best Novel Finalist 2004 Barry Award for Best Novel Finalist 2004 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel Finalist 2004 Macavity Award for Best Novel Finalist 2010 Barry Award for Best Novel of the Decade The Killing of the Tinkers (2002) 2005 Macavity Award for Best Novel Finalist 2005 Anthony Award for Best Mystery Novel The Magdalen Martyrs (2003) The Dramatist (2004) 2007 Shamus Award for Best Novel Finalist 2005 Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel Priest (2006) 2007 Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel Finalist 2008 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Cross (2007) Sanctuary (2008)	The Devil (2010) Headstone (2011) Purgatory (2013) Green Hell (2015) The Emerald Lie (2016) The Ghosts of Galway (2017) In the Galway Silence (2018) Galway Girl (2019) A Galway Epiphany (2020) Galway Confidential (2024)

	Co-authored with Jason Starr Max Fisher, a wealthy businessman, and Angela Petrakos, his sexy assistant, starting out in New York City:
	Bust (2006) Finalist 2007 Barry Award for Best Paperback Slide (2007) Finalist 2008 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original	The Max (2008) Pimp (2016)

	Non-series:
	Shades of Grace² (1993) Martyrs² (1994) Rilke on Black (1996) The Hackman Blues (1997) Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (1998) London Boulevard (2001)	Dispatching Baudelaire (2004) American Skin (2006) Once Were Cops (2008) Tower (2009) [with Reed Farrel Coleman] 2010 Macavity Award for Best Novel Finalist 2010 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Merrick (2014)
	2. Included in omnibus A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen (2006)

	Ken Bruen’s mysteries at