Why You Should Read Ken Bruen the Master of Irish Noir
From the mean streets of Galway comes one of the darkest and most underrated Irish crime writers. In honor of St Patrick’s Day, get thee Ken Bruen’s books says critic Allen Barra.
If Ken Bruen did not exist, only the devil could have invented Jack Taylor. Taylor is the hero—and that’s casting a pretty wide net in defining the term—of nine novels as nasty and profane as anything written in the English language coming under the heading of crime fiction.
