Irish noir!
Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15) by Ken Bruen
Jack Taylor, ex Garda, Jameson whiskey glugging alcoholic, and private investigator, attracts tragedy and psychotics in equal amounts. Jack has hit an all time low with the murder of his daughter. The last thing he needed was to become emerged in random acts of murder targeting the Gardai.
How is it that this man limps or more often than not, slides from one disastrous situation to another just by being?
The action in Galway Girl is brutal and swift buoyed along by the protagonists who are involving themselves in a deadly game of one upmanship. And when Jack becomes the target, well anything can and does happen.
Does Jack walk on the wild side, flatlining his emotional needs in a bottle of whiskey or has he just become so inured to what normal people are horrified by that he just can't seem to care?
(My visual image of Jack is as always tied to the onscreen detective as portrayed by Iain Glen in his Gardai coat, a few days stubble on his chin, decidedly rumpled, lurching through various mishaps, often without conscious intent).
Jack, always a puzzle and a pleasure!
A Mysterious Press ARC via NetGalley
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Jack Taylor, ex Garda, Jameson whiskey glugging alcoholic, and private investigator, attracts tragedy and psychotics in equal amounts. Jack has hit an all time low with the murder of his daughter. The last thing he needed was to become emerged in random acts of murder targeting the Gardai.
How is it that this man limps or more often than not, slides from one disastrous situation to another just by being?
The action in Galway Girl is brutal and swift buoyed along by the protagonists who are involving themselves in a deadly game of one upmanship. And when Jack becomes the target, well anything can and does happen.
Does Jack walk on the wild side, flatlining his emotional needs in a bottle of whiskey or has he just become so inured to what normal people are horrified by that he just can't seem to care?
(My visual image of Jack is as always tied to the onscreen detective as portrayed by Iain Glen in his Gardai coat, a few days stubble on his chin, decidedly rumpled, lurching through various mishaps, often without conscious intent).
Jack, always a puzzle and a pleasure!
A Mysterious Press ARC via NetGalley
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