The Jack Taylor Novels
23 books in seriesThe Guards Publisher's summary
You're getting a free audiobook.
You're getting a free audiobook.
-
Book 1
-
The Guards
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana, and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. He is teetering on the brink of his life's sharpest edges, his memories of the past cutting deep into his soul and his prospects for the future non-existent.
-
-
This is literature, not just crime fiction
- By John on 08-09-13
-
The Guards
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-09-09
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $17.84 or 1 credit
Sale price: $17.84 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 2
-
The Killing of the Tinkers
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor, a disgraced ex-cop in Galway, has slid further down the slope of despair. After a year in London he returns to his home town of Galway with a leather coat and a coke habit. Someone is systematically slaughtering young travellers and dumping their bodies in the city centre. Even in the state he's in, Jack Taylor has an uncanny ability to know where to look, what questions to ask, and with the aid of an English policeman, apparently solves the case.
-
-
What a waste
- By Lynda Rands on 10-06-14
-
The Killing of the Tinkers
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-26-09
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $18.91 or 1 credit
Sale price: $18.91 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 3
-
The Magdalen Martyrs
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor, traumatised, bitter and hurting from his last case, has resolved to give up the finding business. However, he owes the local hard man a debt of honour and it appears easy enough: find “the Angel of the Magdalen” – a woman who helped the unfortunates incarcerated in the infamous laundry. He is also hired by a whizz kid to prove that his father’s death was no accident. Jack treats both cases as relatively simple affairs.
-
-
Bruen does it again
- By Cameron on 04-18-12
-
The Magdalen Martyrs
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-17-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $18.44 or 1 credit
Sale price: $18.44 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 4
-
The Dramatist
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The accidental deaths of two students appear random, tragic events, except that in each case a copy of a book by John Millington Synge is found beneath the body. Jack begins to believe that "The Dramatist", a calculating killer, is out there, enticing him to play. As the case twists and turns Jack's refuge, the city of Galway, now demands he sacrifice the only love he's maintained, and while Iraq burns, he seems a step away from the abyss.
-
-
Standard Bruen fare full of J and Guards
- By G.R. on 01-30-12
-
The Dramatist
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-03-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $17.61 or 1 credit
Sale price: $17.61 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Dramatist
- A Jack Taylor Novel
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Michael Deehy
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober - off booze and pills, and nearly off cigarettes. One reason: his dealer's in jail. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't - can't - because the man's sister is dead and the guards have called it "death by misadventure." But the dealer says that can't be true and begs Jack to see what he can find.
-
-
great twist and unexpected ending
- By Elaine on 04-28-21
-
The Dramatist
- A Jack Taylor Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Deehy
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-15-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $15.56 or 1 credit
Sale price: $15.56 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 5
-
Priest
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ireland is no longer the land of saints and scholars. Now, in an era of prosperity, the sexual scandals surrounding the church have caused its people to lose faith in the one institution that seemed invulnerable. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway church brings a gasp to the most hardened cynics. Not to Jack Taylor. Emotionally bruised, battered, and still struggling with the demon drink, he’s back in town, trying to get his life on course after the traumatic trauma of personal loss.
-
Priest
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-15-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $14.52 or 1 credit
Sale price: $14.52 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 6
-
Cross
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption - his surrogate son, Cody - is lying in 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.
-
Cross
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-22-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $13.07 or 1 credit
Sale price: $13.07 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 7
-
Sanctuary
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two guards; one nun; one judge. When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, PI Jack Taylor is sickened, but tells himself the list has nothing to do with him. He has enough to do just staying sane. His close friend Ridge is recovering from surgery and alcohol's siren song is calling to him ever more insistently. A guard and then a judge die in mysterious circumstances. But it is not until a child is added to the list that Taylor determines to find the identity of the killer, and stop them at any cost.
-
Sanctuary
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-22-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $13.07 or 1 credit
Sale price: $13.07 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 8
-
The Devil
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: - but not for PI Jack Taylor, who's just been refused entry.Disappointed and bitter, he thinks that an encounter with an over-friendly stranger in an airport bar is the least of his problems. Except that this stranger seems to know rather more than he should about Jack.Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway.
-
-
Engaging from the first paragraph.
- By Quanked Scribe on 04-02-19
-
The Devil
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-16-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $13.07 or 1 credit
Sale price: $13.07 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 9
-
Headstone
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them.
Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special-needs boy is brutally attacked. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken. This coterie of evil intends to act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack's life as an act of appalling violence alerts him to the horror enveloping Galway.
-
Headstone
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-17-12
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $13.07 or 1 credit
Sale price: $13.07 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Headstone
- A Jack Taylor Novel of Terror
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them, and has the scars to prove it. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland that leave even the national police shaken. And Jack is especially vulnerable now that he has finally found love and happiness.
-
-
Bruen at his best..
- By A. Koren on 10-28-11
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $16.23 or 1 credit
Sale price: $16.23 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 10
-
Purgatory
- Jack Taylor, Book 10
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor thinks he has a chance at last to rest and heal from the myriad mental and physical traumas that beset him. However, after a skateboarder long suspected of dealing drugs to children is shot dead in mid-air during a public performance, Jack receives a cryptic message with a picture of the skateboarder, a clipping about a rapist gone free through procedural error, and a chilling invitation: "Your turn." The note is signed simply "C 33."
-
-
Not my cup of Tea!
- By R on 02-04-23
-
Purgatory
- Jack Taylor, Book 10
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-05-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $16.23 or 1 credit
Sale price: $16.23 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Purgatory
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A drug pusher, a rapist, a loan shark: all targeted in what look like vigilante attacks. And the killer is writing to Jack, signing their name: C-33. Jack has had enough. He doesn’t need the money, and doesn’t want to get involved. But when his friend Stewart gets drawn in, it seems he isn’t been given a choice.
-
Purgatory
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-01-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $13.07 or 1 credit
Sale price: $13.07 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 11
-
Green Hell
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor has again hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead, the other has stopped speaking to him. But Jack isn't about to embark on a self-improvement plan. Instead he has taken up a vigilante case against a professor of literature who has a violent habit his friends in high places are only too happy to ignore. And when Jack rescues a preppy American student from a couple of kid thugs, he also unexpectedly gains a new sidekick.
-
Green Hell
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-01-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $19.13 or 1 credit
Sale price: $19.13 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Green Hell
- A Jack Taylor Novel
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor has 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 Garda, is ancient history.
-
-
The most literate violent crime writer
- By Laura Blackledge-Cohen on 06-02-24
-
Green Hell
- A Jack Taylor Novel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $17.19 or 1 credit
Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 12
-
Book 13
-
The Ghosts of Galway
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money - and with former cop on his resume - Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, which is currently in the possession of a rogue priest who is hiding out in Galway after fleeing the Vatican.
-
-
OH!! So Good
- By paul on 03-16-18
-
The Ghosts of Galway
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-14-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $23.60 or 1 credit
Sale price: $23.60 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 14
-
In the Galway Silence
- A Jack Taylor Novel
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and little sign of trouble on the horizon. Once again, trouble comes to him - this time in the form of a wealthy Frenchman who wants Jack to investigate the double-murder of his twin sons. Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriend's nine-year-old son and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character out of his past. The plot is one big chess game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player, a vigilante called "Silence"....
-
-
The noirest of all Ken Bruen's books
- By Mathilde Ben Jacob on 11-22-18
-
In the Galway Silence
- A Jack Taylor Novel
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-06-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $26.59 or 1 credit
Sale price: $26.59 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 15
-
Galway Girl
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jack Taylor has never quite been able to 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, as usual, 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.
-
-
Great Plot and narration
- By timekeeper on 01-28-20
-
Galway Girl
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-05-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $28.60 or 1 credit
Sale price: $28.60 or 1 credit
-
-
Book 16
-
A Galway Epiphany
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ex-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. 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 and 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”.
-
A Galway Epiphany
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-19-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $29.09 or 1 credit
Sale price: $29.09 or 1 credit
-