Quotes About Ken Bruen

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

By the holy, Jack Taylor. I was beginning to think you were a rumor running around as a fact.

Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.

I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

A GALWAY LAMENT You watched—through April from a place of forbearance … called fortitude.

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.