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Headstone

A Jack Taylor Novel
by Ken Bruen
Headstone: A Jack Taylor Novel. Mysterious Pr: Grove Atlantic. Oct. 2011. 256p. ISBN 9780802126009. $24.
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Mystery champion Otto Penzler recently bought back the Mysterious Press, which he founded in 1975 and then sold; he's relaunching it with Grove Atlantic. Among the new imprint's first books is this latest in Irish crime writer Bruen's Jack Taylor series, which debuted with The Guards, a Shamus winner and Edgar, Macavity, and Barry finalist. Here, Jack is up against a completely amoral bunch called Headstone that's terrorizing Galway. A brief, hard-bitten extract turned my blood to ice. Definitely buy for your thriller readers.
Award-winning author Bruen brings back the intrepid Jack Taylor (The Devil) to figure out a brutal series of hate crimes, seemingly random, in Galway, Ireland. Even Jack will be flummoxed by the pure evil he's forced to confront. [See Prepub Alert, 4/4/11.]
Reviewed by Teresa L. Jacobsen , May 01, 2011
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