This is Bruen's first Jack Taylor novel. Jack seems to be a cliche, the tough, boozer cop, let go from The Guard (police) for his drinking. He loves books, however, perhaps because Bruen taught English all over the world. Despite his need for a drink, he manages to get by as a 'finder', usually by word of mouth. In this case, a gorgeous woman stops in his pub, plops an envelope full of money on the table, and asks him to prove that her daughter did not commit suicide but was murdered. Bruen not only loves books but also music, constantly adding lyrics or quotations from his reading to the beginning of a chapter. Jack not only falls for this woman, ends up trashing the relationship but finds a serial killer responsible for the deaths of many girls. It's gritty, in the Irish fashion, and takes place in Galway.
A daily journal of our lives (begun in October 2010), in photos (many taken by my wife, Evie) and words, mostly from our home on Chautauqua Lake, in Western New York, where my wife Evie and I live, after my having retired from teaching English for forty-five years in Hawaii, Turkey, and Ohio. We have three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson, as you will notice if you follow my blog since we often travel to visit them. Photo from our porch taken on 11/03/2024 at 7:07 AM
Monday, January 29, 2018
THE GUARDS: KEN BRUEN
This is Bruen's first Jack Taylor novel. Jack seems to be a cliche, the tough, boozer cop, let go from The Guard (police) for his drinking. He loves books, however, perhaps because Bruen taught English all over the world. Despite his need for a drink, he manages to get by as a 'finder', usually by word of mouth. In this case, a gorgeous woman stops in his pub, plops an envelope full of money on the table, and asks him to prove that her daughter did not commit suicide but was murdered. Bruen not only loves books but also music, constantly adding lyrics or quotations from his reading to the beginning of a chapter. Jack not only falls for this woman, ends up trashing the relationship but finds a serial killer responsible for the deaths of many girls. It's gritty, in the Irish fashion, and takes place in Galway.
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