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The Emerald Lie

by Ken Bruen
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An Irish crime novel featuring ex-cop Jack Taylor from an author “among the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
 
In The Emerald Lie, the latest terror to be visited upon the dark Galway streets arrives in a most unusual form: a Cambridge graduate who becomes murderous over split infinitives, dangling modifiers, and any other sign of bad grammar. Meanwhile, Jack is approached by a grieving father with a pocketful of cash on offer if Jack will help exact revenge on those responsible for his daughter’s brutal rape and murder. Though hesitant to get involved, Jack agrees to get a read on the likely perpetrators.
 
But Jack is soon derailed by the reappearance of Emily (previous alias: Emerald), the chameleon-like young woman who joined forces with Jack to take down her pedophile father in Green Hell and who remains passionate, clever, and utterly homicidal. She will use any sort of coercion to get Jack to conspire with her against the serial killer the Garda have nicknamed “the Grammarian,” but her most destructive obsession just might be Jack himself.
 
“Nobody writes like Ken Bruen, with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

  • Creators

  • Series

    Jack Taylor

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 6, 2016

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780802189691
      • File size: 2189 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780802189691
      • File size: 4598 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English