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Ken Bruen

Author of The Guards

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The Guards 788 copies, 50 reviews
The Killing of the Tinkers 412 copies, 14 reviews
The Magdalen Martyrs 352 copies, 14 reviews
Priest 325 copies, 19 reviews
Bust 323 copies, 9 reviews
The Dramatist 303 copies, 13 reviews
Cross 276 copies, 15 reviews
Slide 219 copies, 3 reviews
London Boulevard 196 copies, 9 reviews
The Max 187 copies, 4 reviews
Sanctuary 173 copies, 9 reviews
Once Were Cops 171 copies, 11 reviews
Blitz 159 copies, 1 review
Headstone 152 copies, 6 reviews
Vixen 147 copies
Calibre 144 copies, 4 reviews
The Devil 137 copies, 7 reviews
American Skin 135 copies, 5 reviews
The White Trilogy 121 copies, 2 reviews
Ammunition 109 copies, 1 review
Purgatory 102 copies, 8 reviews
Rilke on Black (Mask Noir) 100 copies, 1 review
A White Arrest 97 copies, 6 reviews
Green Hell 91 copies, 17 reviews
Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice 84 copies, 2 reviews
Tower 77 copies, 8 reviews
Dublin Noir : The Celtic Tiger vs. The Ugly American 75 copies, 3 reviews
The Ghosts of Galway 67 copies, 7 reviews
The Emerald Lie 66 copies, 4 reviews
The Hackman Blues 63 copies, 2 reviews
In the Galway Silence 61 copies, 11 reviews
The McDead 53 copies
A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen 50 copies
Pimp 48 copies, 4 reviews
Taming the Alien 45 copies, 1 review
Dispatching Baudelaire 43 copies
Galway Girl 43 copies, 6 reviews
The Book of Virtue 20 copies
A Galway Ephiphany 19 copies, 2 reviews
London Boulevard [2010 film] (Novel) 14 copies
Merrick 9 copies, 2 reviews
Mysterious Profile #10: Jack Taylor 3 copies
MURDER BY THE BOOK 3 copies
Dogtown 2 copies, 1 review
Attica: Hinter Gittern... und gefährlich 2 copies
Brooklyn requiem 2 copies
Shades of Grace 2 copies
Wednesday's Child 2 copies
Une pinte de Bruen 2 2 copies
To Have And To Hold 2 copies
2012 1 copy
The Big Click: March 2012 (Issue 1) 1 copy
Martyrs 1 copy
Miami Purity 1 copy
Time of Serena-May / Upon the Third Cross 1 copy
Hackman blues 1 copy
Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities 1 copy
Fade to...Brooklyn 1 copy
Danny Boy 1 copy
The Dead Room 1 copy
Une pinte de Bruen 1 1 copy
Angel Of Hospitality 1 copy
Vraždy na molu ; Vraždy bez trestu ; Padlé mučednice : Ken Bruen… 1 copy
The Galway Trinity 1 copy
Colt 1 copy
Time Of The Green 1 copy
The Green Lie 1 copy
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Inherit the Dead (Contributor) 244 copies, 11 reviews
First Thrills (Contributor) 218 copies, 9 reviews
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's… 205 copies, 9 reviews
The Lineup (Contributor) 181 copies, 3 reviews
Brooklyn Noir (Contributor) 172 copies, 1 review
Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores (Contributor) 126 copies, 5 reviews
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (Contributor) 113 copies, 26 reviews
21st Century Dead (Contributor) 104 copies, 19 reviews
Hellboy: Oddest Jobs (Contributor) 89 copies, 2 reviews
London Noir (Contributor) 87 copies, 3 reviews
A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (Contributor) 72 copies, 1 review
The Cocaine Chronicles (Contributor) 62 copies
Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir (Contributor) 59 copies, 2 reviews
The Best British Mysteries 2006 (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 5 (Contributor) 53 copies, 1 review
First Thrills: Volume 2 (Contributor) 38 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 (Contributor) 33 copies, 2 reviews
Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and… (Contributor) 33 copies, 1 review
The Best British Mysteries 4 (Contributor) 24 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 9 (Contributor) 23 copies
Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
Art in the Blood (some editions) 17 copies, 3 reviews
On Dangerous Ground: Stories of Western Noir (Author) 16 copies, 2 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10 (Contributor) 15 copies
Uncommon Assassins (Contributor) 14 copies, 1 review
Requiems for the Departed (Contributor, some editions) 13 copies
Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power (Contributor) 10 copies, 1 review
Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT 6 copies
West Coast Crime Wave (Foreword) 4 copies
Moord uit het boekje (Author) 3 copies
Borderland Noir: Stories & Essays of Love & Death across the Rio Grande (Contributor) 3 copies
Crime Factory Issue 1 1 copy
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1951-01-03
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Ireland
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Galway, Ireland
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Galway, Ireland
Education
Trinity College, Dublin (Phd Metaphysics)
Gormanston College (County Meath)
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novelist
English teacher
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Ken Bruen besuchte das St. Joseph’s College in Galway City, später das Trinity College Dublin, an dem er über Metaphysik promovierte.
Bevor er zu schreiben begann, hatte er 25 Jahre lang als Englischlehrer in Afrika, Japan, Südostasien und Südamerika gelebt und gearbeitet. Heute ist er Mitglied eines literarischen Zirkels um Jason Starr, Reed Farrel Coleman und Allan Guthrie. Seine Bücher wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen geehrt, u. a. mit dem renommierten Shamus Award und dem französischen Grand prix de littérature policière.
Bruen lebt mit seiner Frau und einer gemeinsamen Tochter in seiner Geburtsstadt Galway.
Seit 2010 wird mit Jack Taylor eine auf seiner Jack-Taylor-Buchserie basierende Fernseh-Krimireihe produziert.
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