Ken Bruen Books In Order

Blitz

The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts’ wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a black female investigator in the notorious unit. When a serial killer takes his show on the road, things get worse for all three. Nicknamed ‘The Blitz‘ by the rabid London media, the killer is aiming for tabloid immortality by killing cops in different beats around the city.

Blitz represents Ken Bruen at his edgy, lethal, and sharp tongued best, and will reward fans of his Jack Taylor novels with another astonishing, smart, and brutal vision from a writer rapidly becoming one of the best of his generation.

Vixen

For the Southeast London police squad, it’s rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuos, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry and the cops don’t even know she exists. Meanwhile, Inspector Roberts is helpless to stop the explosions and his subordinates aren’t doing much better. Brant is consumed with an even bigger than usual mean streak, and fast rising Porter Nash finds himself facing serious health problems everything to do with needles. PC MacDonald is determined to soldier on, whatever the cost, and the career of a new addition to the squad, WPC Andrews, starts spectacularly but with Falls as her mentor she’s not expected to last long. At the top, Superintendent Brown is close to a coronary, and arresting the wrong man in a blaze of publicity is only the beginning of his problems. If the squad survives this incendiary installment in Ken Bruen’s blazingly intense series, they’ll do so with barely a cop left standing.

Calibre

Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public tongue lashing to a misbehaving child, or a parking lot attendant is rude to a series of customers, the ‘Manners Killer’ makes sure that the next thing either sees is the beginning of his own grisly end. When he starts mailing letters to the Southeast London police squad, he’ll soon find out just how bad a man’s manners can get. The Southeast is dominated by the perpetual sneer of one Inspector Brant, and while he might or might not agree with the killer’s cause and can even forgive his tactics to some degree, Brant is just ornery enough to employ his trademark brand of amoral, borderline criminal policing to the hunt for the Manners Killer. For if there’s one thing that drives the incomparable inspector, it’s the unshakeable conviction that if anyone is going to be getting away with murder on his patch, it’ll be Brant himself, thank you very much.

Ammunition

Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a few enemies. So when a crazed gunman, hired by persons unknown, pumps a magazine full of bullets into Brant in a local pub, leaving him in grasping at life but ornery as ever, his colleagues on the squad are left wondering how to react. Brant’s old partner Inspector Roberts, the man who may know him best, finds himself wondering why someone didn’t shoot the hateful detective years ago. The answer, as they’re all about to find out, is quite simple: if you come after Brant you’d damn well better kill him the first time because if you don’t, you won’t want to stick around to find out what happens next.

The Guards

Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda S och na The Guards, Ireland’s police force 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. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland s best private investigator, not to mention its first Irish history, full of betrayal and espionage, discourages any profession so closely related to informing. But in truth Jack 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 nonexistent. Nonexistent, that is, until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange request and a rumor about Jack s talent for finding things. Odds are he won t be able to climb off his barstool long enough to get involved with his radiant new client, but when he surprises himself by getting hired, Jack has little idea of what he s getting into. Stark, violent, sharp, and funny, The Guards is an exceptional novel, one that leaves you stunned and breathless, flipping back to the beginning in a mad dash to find Jack Taylor and enter his world all over again. It s an unforgettable story that s gritty, absorbing, and saturated with the rough edged rhythms of the Galway streets. Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards heralds the arrival of an essential new novelist in contemporary crime fiction. The Guards is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.

The Killing of the Tinkers

When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack’s back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings.

Before long he’s sunk into his old patterns, lifting his head from the bar only every few days, appraising his surroundings for mere minutes and then descending deep into the alcoholic, drug induced fugue he prefers to the real world. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack’s clarity and changes all that with a simple request. Jack knows the look in this man’s eyes, a look of hopelessness mixed with resolve topped off with a quietly simmering rage; he’s seen it in the mirror. Recognizing a kindred soul, Jack agrees to help him, knowing but not admitting that getting involved is going to lead to more bad than good. But in Jack Taylor’s world bad and good are part and parcel of the same lost cause, and besides, no one ever accused Jack of having good sense.

Ken Bruen wowed critics and readers alike when he introduced Jack Taylor in The Guards; he’ll blow them away with The Killing of the Tinkers, a novel of gritty brilliance that cements Bruen’s place among the greats of modern crime fiction.

The Magdalen Martyrs

Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn’t trust when his phone rings. He’s in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a ‘hard man.’ Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned.

Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused. Jack doesn’t like the odds of finding the woman, but counts himself lucky that the task is at least on the right side of the law.

Until he spends a few days spinning his wheels and is dragged in front of Cassell for a quick reminder of his priorites. Bill’s goons do a little spinning of their own, playing a game of Russian roulette a little too close to the back of Jack’s head. It’s only blind luck and the mercy of a god he no longer trusts that land Jack back on the street rather than face down in a cellar with a bullet in his skull. He’s got one chance to stay alive: find this woman.

Unfortunately, he can’t escape his own curiosity, and an unnerving hunch quickly turns into a solid fact: just who Jack’s looking for, and why, aren’t nearly what they seem.

The Magdalen Martyrs, the third Galway set novel by Edgar, Barry, and Macavity finalist and Shamus Award winner Ken Bruen, is a gripping, dazzling story that takes the Jack Taylor series to explosive new heights of suspense.

The Dramatist

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 by misadventure. The dealer knows that can t be true and begs Jack to have a look, check around, see what he can find out. It s exactly what Jack does, with varying levels of success, to make a living. But he s reluctant, maybe because of who s asking or maybe because of the bad feeling growing in his gut. Never one to give in to bad feelings or common sense, Jack agrees to the favor, though he can t possibly know the shocking, deadly consequences he has set in motion. But he and everyone he holds dear will find out soon, sooner than anyone knows, in the lean and lethal fourth entry in Ken Bruen s award winning Jack Taylor series.

Priest

Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen.

Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, has always believed himself to be beyond salvation. But a new job offers a fresh start, and an unexpected partnership provides hope that his one desperate vision of family might yet be fulfilled.

An eerie mix of exorcism, a predatory stalker, and unlikely attraction conspires to lure him into a murderous web of dark conspiracies. The specter of a child haunts every waking moment.

Explosive, unsettling and totally original, Ken Bruen’s writing captures the brooding landscape of Irish society at a time of social and economic upheaval. Here is evidence of an unmistakable literary talent.

Cross

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 dead and living. Everyone wants something from him, but Jack is not sure he has anything left to give. Maybe he should disappear–pocket his money and get the hell out of Galway like everyone else seems to be doing. But when the sister of the murdered boy is burned to death, Jack decides he must hunt down the killer, if only to administer his own brand of justice.

Sanctuary

When a letter containing a list of victims arrives in the post, P.I. Jack Taylor tells himself that it’s got 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. What he doesn t know is that his relationship with the killer is far closer than he thinks. And it s about to become deeply personal.

Spiked with dark humor, and fueled with rage at man s inhumanity to man, this is crime writing at its darkest and most original.

The Devil

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 overly friendly stranger in an airport bar is the least of his problems. Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway. But when he s called to investigate a student murder connected to an elusive Mr. K he remembers the man from the airport. Is the stranger really is who he says he is? With the help of the Jameson, Jack struggles to make sense of it all. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis. But why has he been chosen? And could he really have taken on The Devil himself? Suspenseful, haunting, and totally unique, The Devil is Bruen at his very best.

Headstone

Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. 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. Most would see a Headstone as a marker of the dead, but this organization seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack’s life. Jack s usual allies, Ridge and Stewart, are also in the line of terror. An act of appalling violence alerts them to the sleeping horror, but this realization may be too late, as Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Jack s life and the heart of Galway. A terrific read from a writer called a Celtic Dashiell Hammett, Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series Philadelphia Inquirer

Purgatory

Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. 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. Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this organization seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack’s life. Jack s usual allies, Ridge and Stewart, are also in the line of terror. An act of appalling violence alerts them to the sleeping horror, but this realization may be too late, as Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Jack s life and the heart of Galway. A terrific read from a writer called a Celtic Dashiell Hammett, Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series Philadelphia Inquirer

Bust

5 IMPORTANT / VALUABLE LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST:1 When you hire someone to kill your wife, don t hire a psychopath.2 Don t use Drano to get rid of a dead body.3 Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure.4 A curly blond wig isn t much of a disguise.5 Secrets can kill.

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WARNING! THIS MAY BE THE MOST SHOCKING BOOK YOU EVER READ! Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, hooking up with a would be record setter in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again? What do you think? From the evil geniuses who brought you Bust comes a roller coaster ride of suspense, mayhem and vicious fun that ll make you reluctant ever to open your mail again. Don t say we didn t warn you.

The Max

MAX AND ANGELA ARE GOING DOWN! When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye opening encounters with the law Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos

Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice

‘This violent, profane novel…
is also wickedly entertaining and, in places, quite funny.’-Booklist

‘Bruen combines jazz, drugs, sex, and violence into a heady brew that goes down easy and leaves a long aftertaste.’-Publishers Weekly

‘A masterpiece of London noir.’-BBC Greater London Radio

‘The Hackman Blues is British noir at its most brutal and honest. The Hackman Blues is the book that will change the way you read crime fiction, that will show up most other writers trading in the darkness of the soul as rank amateurs compared to Ken Bruen. This is noir. This is Bruen. This is The Hackman Blues.’-Russel McLean, author of The Good Son

Brady is fifty, gay, and a manic-depressive professional criminal of Irish descent, strung out on lithium and excessive drinking. Add in a lethal ex-con, an Irish builder obsessed with Gene Hackman, and the biggest funeral Brixton has ever seen, and what you get is the Blues like they’ve never been sung before.

This new edition features an original foreword by British crime writer Ray Banks and a new afterword by Ken Bruen!

Ken Bruen has been nominated for two Edgar Awards and has won or been nominated for pretty much every other mystery and crime award out there, including the Barry, Macavity, and Shamus awards. His books have been adapted to film-Blitz starring Jason Statham and London Boulevard starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley-and for British television The Guards. He lives in Galway, Ireland.

Rilke on Black

The most startlingly original crime novel to emerge this decade. GQ The reading equivalent of a boxer’s sharp jab to the solar plexus. It s fast paced, tough and pretty sexy. Pulp In south London, an unlikely gang of kidnappers Nick, an ex bouncer; Dex, a charismatic sociopath; and Lisa, a motormouth junkie femme fatale hatches a plot. Their prey is a powerful local businessman with an obsession for the poet Rilke. The thing is, each kidnapper has a very different agenda, which means it s only a matter of time before the joking stops and the violence takes over. Ken Bruen s dark contemporary thriller matches a razor sharp vernacular with a country music soundtrack to create a truly intoxicating and original mix.

The Hackman Blues

‘This violent, profane novel…
is also wickedly entertaining and, in places, quite funny.’-Booklist

‘Bruen combines jazz, drugs, sex, and violence into a heady brew that goes down easy and leaves a long aftertaste.’-Publishers Weekly

‘A masterpiece of London noir.’-BBC Greater London Radio

‘The Hackman Blues is British noir at its most brutal and honest. The Hackman Blues is the book that will change the way you read crime fiction, that will show up most other writers trading in the darkness of the soul as rank amateurs compared to Ken Bruen. This is noir. This is Bruen. This is The Hackman Blues.’-Russel McLean, author of The Good Son

Brady is fifty, gay, and a manic-depressive professional criminal of Irish descent, strung out on lithium and excessive drinking. Add in a lethal ex-con, an Irish builder obsessed with Gene Hackman, and the biggest funeral Brixton has ever seen, and what you get is the Blues like they’ve never been sung before.

This new edition features an original foreword by British crime writer Ray Banks and a new afterword by Ken Bruen!

Ken Bruen has been nominated for two Edgar Awards and has won or been nominated for pretty much every other mystery and crime award out there, including the Barry, Macavity, and Shamus awards. His books have been adapted to film-Blitz starring Jason Statham and London Boulevard starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley-and for British television The Guards. He lives in Galway, Ireland.

London Boulevard

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn t even remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for Tommy Logan, a ruthless loan shark lowlife with plans Mitchell wants nothing to do with. Attempting to stay out of Logan’s way, he finds work at the Holland Park mansion of faded movie actress, Lillian Palmer, where he has to deal with her mysterious butler, Jordan. It isn t long before Mitchell s violent past catches up with him and people start getting hurt. When his disturbed sister Briony is threatened, Mitchell is forced to act.

Academy Award winning screenwriter William Monahan The Departed has teamed with Quentin Curtis to acquire rights to London Boulevard. Monahan plans to co produce, write, and make his directorial debut with the movie.

This is a masterful work of double dealing and suspense from one of the great crime writers of our time.

American Skin

Stephen Blake is a good man blown in bad directions. He and girlfriend Siobhan, best friend Tommy, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a particularly American sort of psychopath named Dade, are all on a collision course somewhere on the road between the dive bars of New York, and the pitiless desert of the Southwest. American Skin is the long awaited American novel by Ken Bruen, the hardboiled master of Irish Noir.

Once Were Cops

Michael O’Shea is a member of Ireland’s police force, known as The Guards. He’s also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he’s known, has his lifelong dream come true he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay’s dream is about to become New York’s nightmare.

Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed Kebar for his liberal use of a short, lethal metal stick called a K bar, the two unlikely partners become a devastatingly effective force in the war against crime.

But Kebar harbors a dangerous secret: he’s sold out to the mob to help his sister. Her rape and beating leaves her in a coma and pushes an already unstable Kebar over the edge just as Shea’s dark secrets threaten boil over and into the streets of New York.

Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast paced, incomparable hard boiled novel. This is Ken Bruen at his best.

Tower (With: Reed Farrel Coleman)

Born into a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, outsiders in their own families, Nick and Todd forge a lifelong bond that persists in the face of crushing loss, blood, and betrayal. Low level wiseguys with little ambition and even less of a future, the friends become major players in the potential destruction of an international crime syndicate that stretches from the cargo area at Kennedy Airport to the streets of New York, Belfast, and Boston to the alleyways of Mexican border towns. Their paths are littered with the bodies of undercover cops, snitches, lovers, and stone cold killers. In the tradition of The Long Goodbye, Mystic River, and The Departed, Tower is a powerful meditation on friendship, fate, and fatality. A twice told tale done in the unique format of parallel narratives that intersect at deadly crossroads, Tower is like a beautifully crafted knife to the heart. Imagine a Brooklyn rabbi/poet Reed Farrel Coleman collaborating with a mad Celt from the West of Ireland Ken Bruen to produce a novel unlike anything you’ve ever encountered. A ferocious blast of gut wrenching passion that blends the fierce granite of Galway and the streetwise rap of Brooklyn. Fasten your seat belts, this is an experience that is as incendiary as it is heart shriven.

Time of Serena-May and Upon the Third Cross

A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen is an omnibus of six novels, novellas, and story collections that were originally published in the early 1990s, years before Bruen was nominated for crime fiction’s most coveted prize, the Edgar Award for Best Novel for The Guards.

Includes:
Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbitities
Martyrs
Shades of Grace
Sherry and Other Stories
All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose
The Time of Serena May / Upon the Third Cross

All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose is arguably Bruen’s first foray into crime fiction. ‘The Time of Serena May’ is a heart wrenching, semi autobiographical story of a young couple whose first child is born with Down’s Syndrome.

From the introduction by Allan Guthrie:

‘Imagine, if you will, the time before Jack Taylor, the time before Brant & Roberts, the time before Serpent’s Tail published Rilke on Black and Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice. Picture a bar in the west of Ireland. It’s evening. Smoke hangs thick in the air. Laughter bounces from table to table. It’s the Galway Arms Bar, and there’s the young Ken Bruen, smiling and joking as he hands over a copy of his latest book to a brand new reader. That reader was one of the lucky ones.

‘Ken Bruen’s early works have been much sought after in the last few years, and they’re been virtually impossible to obtain…
. Until now…
‘

A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen

A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen is an omnibus of six novels, novellas, and story collections that were originally published in the early 1990s, years before Bruen was nominated for crime fiction’s most coveted prize, the Edgar Award for Best Novel for The Guards.

Includes:
Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbitities
Martyrs
Shades of Grace
Sherry and Other Stories
All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose
The Time of Serena May / Upon the Third Cross

All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose is arguably Bruen’s first foray into crime fiction. ‘The Time of Serena May’ is a heart wrenching, semi autobiographical story of a young couple whose first child is born with Down’s Syndrome.

From the introduction by Allan Guthrie:

‘Imagine, if you will, the time before Jack Taylor, the time before Brant & Roberts, the time before Serpent’s Tail published Rilke on Black and Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice. Picture a bar in the west of Ireland. It’s evening. Smoke hangs thick in the air. Laughter bounces from table to table. It’s the Galway Arms Bar, and there’s the young Ken Bruen, smiling and joking as he hands over a copy of his latest book to a brand new reader. That reader was one of the lucky ones.

‘Ken Bruen’s early works have been much sought after in the last few years, and they’re been virtually impossible to obtain…
. Until now…
‘

The Cocaine Chronicles (With: Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Jervey Tervalon)

‘The best stories in The Cocaine Chronicles…
are equal to the best fiction being written today.’ New York Journal of Books’The perfect stocking stuffer for your uncle in AA.’ New York Observer’The Cocaine Chronicles is a pure, jangled hit of urban, gritty, and raw noir. Caution: these stories are addicting.’ Harlan Coben, award winning author of Just One Look’Every story is A . All contributors are top notch…
. Should be required reading for writers who want to master the craft of the short story.’ Cherry BleedsOriginal stories by Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and others. Gary Phillips writes for several mediums from novels to screenplays to comic books, and lives in Los Angeles, California. Jervey Tervalon is the author of All the Trouble You Need, Understand This, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground. He lives in Altadena, California.

Dublin Noir

Brand new stories by: Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr, Laura Lippman, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, Craig McDonald, Duane Swierczynski, Reed Farrel Coleman, and others. Irish crime fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin. Dublin Noir features an awe inspiring cast of writers who between them have won all major mystery and crime fiction awards. This collection introduces secret corners of a fascinating city and surprise assaults on the ‘Celtic Tiger’ of modern Irish prosperity.

Damn Near Dead

Hard boiled story collection, featuring original ”geezer noir” tales by Jeff Abbott, Megan Abbott, Charles Ardai, Ray Banks, Mark Billingham, Steve Brewer, Ken Bruen, Milton Burton, Reed Farrel Coleman, Colin Cotterill, Bill Crider, Sean Doolittle, Victor Gischler, Allan Guthrie, John Harvey, Simon Kernick, Laura Lippman, Stuart MacBride, Donna Moore, Zo Sharp, Jenny Siler, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Duane Swierczynski, Robert Ward, Sarah Weinman and Dave White.

Killer Year: Stories to Die For…

Killer Year is a group of 13 debut crime/mystery/suspense authors whose books will be published in 2007. The graduating class includes such rising stars as Robert Gregory Browne, Toni McGee Causey, Marcus Sakey, Derek Nikitas, Marc Lecard, JT Ellison, Brett Battles, Jason Pinter, Bill Cameron, Sean Chercover, Patry Francis, Gregg Olsen, and David White. Each of the short stories displaying their talents are introduced by their Killer Year mentors, some of which include bestselling authors Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen and Jeffrey Deaver, with additional stories by Ken Bruen, Allison Brennan and Duane Swierczynski. Bestselling authors Laura Lippman and MJ Rose contribute insightful essays. Inside you’ll read about a small time crook in over his head, a story told backwards with a hero*ine not to be messed with, a tale of boys and the trouble they will get into over a girl, and many more stories of the highest caliber in murder, mayhem, and sheer entertainment. This amazing anthology, edited by the grandmaster Lee Child, is sure to garner lots of attention and keep readers coming back for more.