17 Best thriller books like Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15) by Ken Bruen

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Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

By: Ken Bruen

3.79

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. …

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Cover of Some Lie and Some Die (Inspector Wexford, #8) by Ruth Rendell

1. Some Lie and Some Die (Inspector Wexford, #8)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.74

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

A mutilated body found at a rock festival.In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsm… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's Some Lie and Some Die (Inspector Wexford, #8) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1) by Mick Herron

2. Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

By: Mick Herron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missin… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He had never really lost his youth; he just kept it in a small room off the landing."

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

"So she was waiting for the lecture; prolonged silence always led to the lecture. It was the last thing Sarah needed, and a list of the first things would have filled a book: a hug, a bath, an ear, so…"

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

"On discovering a fire, the instructions ran, shout Fire and try to put it out. It was useful, heart-of the matter advice, and could be extended almost indefinitely in any direction. On discovering yo…"

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

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3. Absolute Friends

By: John Le Carré

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

An absolutely triumphant bestseller-everywhere hailed as the masterpiece toward which John le Carre… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Absolute Friends book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) by Adrian McKinty

4. Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe #1) by Adrian McKinty

5. Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe #1)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe #1) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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6. The Secret Scripture

By: Sebastian Barry

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Re… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Widening Gyre (Spenser, #10) by Robert B. Parker

7. The Widening Gyre (Spenser, #10)

By: Robert B. Parker

5.00

Format: 160 pages,

The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander has a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's The Widening Gyre (Spenser, #10) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Another One Goes Tonight (Peter Diamond, #16) by Peter Lovesey

8. Another One Goes Tonight (Peter Diamond, #16)

By: Peter Lovesey

4.00

Format: 240 pages,

In the sixteenth entry of Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond wrestles… read more

Similar categories in Peter Lovesey's Another One Goes Tonight (Peter Diamond, #16) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

9. The Ghosts of Belfast (Jack Lennon Investigations #1)

By: Stuart Neville

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Stuart Neville has written not jut a superb thriller but a significant work of literature which exp… read more

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10. The Gangster (Isaac Bell, #9)

By: Clive Cussler , Justin Scott

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Bell is back in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master … read more

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Cover of Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6) by Adrian McKinty

11. Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.33

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This i… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has tra…"

-Adrian McKinty, Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

12. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

Similar categories in Caimh McDonnell's A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

13. The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee, #12)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim und… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hillerman's The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee, #12) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

14. Nobody Walks

By: Mick Herron

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more

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15. In the Morning I'll be Gone (Sean Duffy #3)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A spectacular escape and a man-hunt that could change the future of a nation - and lay one man's pa… read more

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16. I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy #2)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Irlanda del Norte, anos ochenta. Un torso aparece en una maleta abandonada. Ha estado congelado, lo… read more

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17. Creatures of Dust (DCI Brendan Moran #2)

By: None

3.69

Format: 121 pages,

From the author of Amazon top 20 bestseller, 'The Trespass' ... The stunning sequel to 'Black Decem… read more

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18. Gun Street Girl (Detective Sean Duffy #4)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles": Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (R… read more

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19. The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

By: Adrian McKinty , Gerard Doyle

3.92

Format: 11 pages, Audio CD

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

20. Pronto

By: Elmore Leonard

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more

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21. Forever and a Day

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

*THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A spy is dead. A legend is born. Read the explosive new James… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Forever and a Day book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) by Adrian McKinty

22. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

23. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10) by Tony Hillerman

24. Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in posse… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hillerman's Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it."

-Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10)

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

25. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5) by Alan  Parks

26. May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5)

By: Alan Parks

4.36

Format: 372 pages, ebook

Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park's inter… read more

Similar categories in Alan Parks's May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. Five Strangers

By: E.V. Adamson

3.48

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

With its grassy hills and breathtaking city views, London’s Hampstead Heath is the perfect place to… read more

Similar categories in E.V. Adamson's Five Strangers book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15) by Ken Bruen

28. Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

By: Ken Bruen

3.79

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. … read more

Similar categories in Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Gone Too Soon (DCI Brendan Moran #5) by Scott  Hunter

29. Gone Too Soon (DCI Brendan Moran #5)

By: Scott Hunter

4.40

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

DCI Brendan Moran, The Irish Detective, returns in his latest full-length novel  Moran is called to… read more

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Cover of Death Walks Behind You (DCI Brendan Moran #3) by Scott  Hunter

30. Death Walks Behind You (DCI Brendan Moran #3)

By: Scott Hunter

4.18

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

DCI Brendan Moran's last minute break in the West Country proves anything but restful as he becomes… read more

Similar categories in Scott Hunter's Death Walks Behind You (DCI Brendan Moran #3) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Killer of Influence (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #20) by J.D. Kirk

31. A Killer of Influence (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #20)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.76

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

What price would you pay for fame?Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social me… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Kirk's A Killer of Influence (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #20) book and Ken Bruen's Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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3.87

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David Baldacci

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