Four gritty crime thrillers set on the cobbled streets of Galway:

Book 1: The Guards
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Síochána—the Guards, Ireland’s police force—and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to, his memories of the past cutting deep into his soul and his prospects for the future nonexistent. Until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange request and a rumor about Jack’s talent for finding things. When he surprises himself by getting hired, Jack has little idea of what he’s getting into.

Book 2: The Killing of the Tinkers
Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings. But a big gypsy walks into the bar one day during a moment of Jack's clarity and changes all that with a simple request.

Book 3: The Magdalen Martyrs
Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned. Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman, now either dead or very old, who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry, where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused. He's got one chance to stay alive: find this woman.

Book 4: The Dramatist
Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober--off booze, pills, powder, and nearly off cigarettes, too. The main reason: he's been able to keep his dealers in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. When that dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favor in the soiled, sordid visiting room of Mountjoy Prison, Jack wants to tell him to take a flying leap. But he doesn't, can't, because the dealer's sister is dead, and the guards have called it "death by misadventure." Never one to give in to bad feelings or common sense, Jack agrees to the favor, though he can't possibly know the shocking, deadly consequences he has set in motion. But he and everyone he holds dear will find out soon, sooner than anyone knows.

The Setting — Galway’s not pretty. It’s dirty, rain-soaked, and full of cracks. The streets are old, the pubs smell of stale beer, and everyone’s got a secret. It’s a place that keeps going, whether you’re in step with it or not. For Jack Taylor, it’s home. The cold, damp air always seems to linger, and the streets feel forgotten. From the back alleys to the quiet canal paths, Galway’s a city where everyone’s hiding something. It never forgets, and it’ll catch up with you eventually.

Jack Taylor — Former Garda detective Jack Taylor is drinking himself into oblivion after the death of his father and his disgrace from the force. Once a promising detective in the Garda Síochána, Jack’s career ended in disgrace after too many bottles and one punch too many. Now he hunts through Galway’s rain-soaked pubs and backstreets, taking on the cases no one else will touch. Ex-Guard, ex-alcoholic, and reluctant private eye.