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1) The ruin
Author
Series
Cormac Reilly novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years after Cormac Reilly discovered Hilaria Blake dead from a drug overdose leaving fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack orphans, Jack unexpectedly commits suicide. When his sister shows up determined to prove Jack was murdered, Cormac is pressured to reinvestigate their mother's death, charge Maude with her murder, and connect it to Jack's death"--
2) Galway girl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving...
3) Headstone
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In elderly priest is nearly beaten to death. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises, and private investigator Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts a group calling itself Headstone, responsible for a series of random violent crimes in Galway, Ireland. As Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Taylor's life, he will need to call upon...
4) The guards
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Language
English
Description
Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober-off booze, pills, powder, and nearly off cigarettes, too. The main reason he's been able to keep clean: his dealer's in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the soiled, sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't-can't, because the dealer's sister is dead, and the guards have called it "death...
6) Cross
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption, his surrogate son, Cody, is lying in the hospital in a coma. At least he still has Ridge, his old friend from the Guards, though theirs is an unorthodox relationship. When she tells him that a boy has been crucified in Galway city, he agrees to help her search for the killer.
Jack's investigations take him to many of his old haunts where he encounters ghosts, both...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 12
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop Jack Taylor must investigate a serial killer who is murdering Galway residents guilty of using bad grammar. At the same time, a grieving father has hired Jack to exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter's rape and murder.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Carlene O'Connor returns with the first novel in her new Galway Ireland Mystery series! New Yorker Tara Meehan's first trip to Galway may be her last ... Tara never imagined her introduction to Ireland like this--carrying her mam's ashes to honor her final request: Tell Johnny I'm sorry ... Take me home. She's never met her mam's estranged brother, Johnny Meehan, who owns an architectural salvage business in Galway. Although Tara is immediately charmed...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ex-cop Jack Taylor has again hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him; he has given up battling his addiction to alcohol and pills; and his firing from the Irish national police, the Guards, is ancient history. He has taken up a vigilante case against a respected professor of literature at the University of Galway who has a violent habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. Enter...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 16
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become convinced that the two children seen tending to him are...
13) Priest
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
15) The scholar
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandal--her card identifies her as Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland's most successful pharmaceutical...