Order of Ken Bruen Books
Ken Bruen is an Irish author of hardboiled crime fiction. From Galway, Bruen attended Gormanston College and Trinity College Dublin to earn his PhD in metaphysics. From there, he spent 25 years teaching English abroad in places like Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia and South America. His series characters include Jack Taylor and Tom Brant.
Ken Bruen made his literary debut in 1993 with the novel Shades of Grace. Below is a list of Ken Bruen’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of Inspector Brant Books
| A White Arrest | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Taming The Alien | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The McDead | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blitz | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vixen | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Calibre | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ammunition | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Jack Taylor Books
| The Guards | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Killing of the Tinkers | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Magdalen Martyrs | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dramatist | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead Room | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Priest | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cross | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sanctuary | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Devil | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Headstone | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Purgatory | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Green Hell | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Emerald Lie | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ghosts of Galway | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Galway Silence | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galway Girl | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Galway Epiphany | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galway Confidential | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead Room was a limited edition story of which only 150 were released. | ||
Publication Order of Max and Angela Books
(with Jason Starr)
| Bust | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slide | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Max | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pimp | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Shades of Grace | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rilke on Black | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hackman Blues | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| London Boulevard | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dispatching Baudelaire | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| American Skin | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Once Were Cops | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tower | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Callous | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Murder by the Book | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Time of the Green | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wednesday’s Child | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sherry and Other Stories | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Time of Serena-May and Upon the Third Cross | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Mysterious Profiles Books
Publication Order of Akashic Drug Chronicles Books
| The Cocaine Chronicles | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Marijuana Chronicles | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Nicotine Chronicles | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: The Max and Angela series is co-authored with Jason Starr. Tower was co-authored with Reed Farrel Coleman.
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