by vjbooks | Aug 12, 2010 | Books to Movies, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
America – the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: but not for PI Jack Taylor, who’s just been refused entry. Disappointed and bitter, he thinks that an encounter with an over-friendly stranger in an airport bar is the least of...
by vjbooks | Apr 20, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
Roger Smith lives in South Africa. His first book, Mixed Blood, was named one of the best books of 2009, and is now in development for a feature film to star Samuel L. Jackson. His second book, Wake Up Dead received starred reviews by both Publisher’s Weekly...
by vjbooks | Nov 20, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
VJ Books has just received: Martin Limon – G.I. Bones, John Grisham – Ford Country Stories, David Poyer – The Crisis, Ken Bruen – London Boulevard, Lisa Scottoline – Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog, Norb Vonnegut – Top...
by vjbooks | May 12, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The current generation of Irish crime writers had something of an annus mirabilis in 2008, when John Connolly, Tana French, Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and Ruth Dudley Edwards were all nominated for prestigious crime-writing prizes in the US and the UK. Connolly, Dudley...
by vjbooks | May 7, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
At the start of Edgar-finalist Bruen’s lean seventh Jack Taylor novel, the aging, alcoholic Irish ex-cop, who moved to the U.S. in 2008’s The Cross, knows he really ought to be in America, but he’s staying in Galway because his old police partner, Ridge, has developed...
by vjbooks | Dec 11, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
Ken Bruen is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction. Born in Galway in 1951, he spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, S.E. Asia and South America. His thirty or so novels include The Killing of the Tinkers, The Magdalen...
