The Killing of the Tinkers

By: Ken Bruen

Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien

Jack Taylor, a disgraced ex-cop in Galway, has slid further down the slope of despair. After a year in London, he returns to his home town of Galway with a leather coat and a coke habit. Someone is systematically slaughtering young travellers and dumping their bodies in the city centre.

Even in the state he's in, Jack Taylor has an uncanny ability to know where to look, what questions to ask, and with the aid of an English policeman, apparently solves the case.

©2002 Ken Bruen (P)2009 Isis Publishing Ltd

Galway Noir

Killing of the Tinkers is another classic of Ken Bruen's "Jack Taylor" series. Tinkers gives us the dark struggles of ex Garda Jack Taylor and his willingness to take on the most dangerous criminals of Ireland's underworld. Ultimately, Jack Taylor finds his own purpose when he can use his skills on behalf of the innocent and the honorable. Throw in the perfect pint and a large shot of Jamison and you have the colorful mahem of 'Jack Taylor seeking justice in his native Galway. Superb Tale.

Getting hooked...

TV series pulled me in but the books are better. Narrative, characters, literary allusions, self-destruction and Irish justice...and a brilliant narrator to boot. Ending is delicious.

love love love it.

From the Irish brogue to the great story and to Jack Taylor himself. I loved every minute of the story.

Not sure how he does it...

This is crime fiction where the crimes are incidental. In other words, this is literature loosely based around some wrongdoing. The fact that these books are character driven is the key; the fact that that character is Jack Taylor is immense. Highly literate, funny, daring, rightgeous and usually pissed, JT is great company.
On to book 3.

Cheap shot ending

It was a great story right up to the last sentence, a lazy writer’s lame trick. Very disappointed.