Author: Ken Bruen Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery Culture: Ireland
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ISBNs: 9780312353513 0312353510 |
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Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned. Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused. Jack doesn't like the odds of finding the woman, but counts himself lucky that the task is at least on the right side of the law. Until he spends a few days spinning his wheels and is dragged in front of Cassell for a quick reminder of his priorities. Bill's goons do a little spinning of their own, playing a game of Russian roulette a little too close to the back of Jack's head. It's only blind luck and the mercy of a god he no longer trusts that land Jack back on the street rather than face down in a cellar with a bullet in his skull. He's got one chance to stay alive: find this woman. Unfortunately, he can't escape his own curiosity, and an unnerving hunch quickly turns into a solid fact: just who Jack's looking for, and why, aren't nearly what they seem. The Magdalen Martyrs, the third Galway-set novel by Edgar, Barry, and Macavity finalist and Shamus Award-winner Ken Bruen, is a gripping, dazzling story that takes the Jack Taylor series to explosive new heights of suspense.
This book is part of the "Jack Taylor" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Ghosts of Galway" First published in 2017 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Purgatory" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Devil" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Sanctuary" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cross" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Priest" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Guards" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Dramatist" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Headstone" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Green Hell" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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