Jack Taylor Priest: A Jack Taylor Novel, Book 5, (Paperback)

from njgriffin

Another solid story from Ken Bruen. As always an efficient well constructed story featuring one of the most accurate descriptions of an alcoholic you'll probably read about in Jack Taylor.

from PersephonesLibrary

In the fifth novel of Bruen's Jack-Taylor-series the protagonist is still struggling with the death of a beloved person and its consequences. Just as he leaves the asylum where he has stayed for several months his nemesis Father Malachy hires him: A priest was found decapitated in his church. Tay...

from quiBee

After the events in the previous book, the protagonist is released from the place where he's been held and starts to look into the death of a priest. Probably 2.5 to 3 stars because the ending was broadcast from a long way back and was predictable, with too much plucking of the heartstrings.

from blueslibrarian

Jack Taylor is back on the street in the latest installment of Ken Bruen's dark noir series. After suffering a series of personal setbacks, Jack is coping day by day with his recovering alcoholism and the death of his friend's child that he blames himself for. Jack is compelled to take on the cas...

from bcquinnsmom

Here we are, at installment number five of the Jack Taylor series. First, let me say that I've read a number of reviews of this book in which it was the first Taylor book the reviewer had read -- this is probably not the best one to start with. There's so much of Jack's character that begins with...