In the newest novel in Bruen's thrilling series, ex-cop turned private
eye Jack Taylor is pulled out of his quiet new life on a farm by three
mysteries that soon prove dangerously linked
Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in
Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend
Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on
a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a
truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but
mysteriously without a scratch on him.
When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the
so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become convinced that the two
children spotted tending to him are saintly, and the site of the
accident sacred. The Catholic Church isn't so sure, and Jack is
commissioned to help find the children to verify the miracle or expose
the stunt.
But Jack isn't the only one looking for these children. A fraudulent
order of nuns needs them to legitimatize its sanctity and becomes
involved with a dangerous arsonist. Soon, the building in which the
children are living burns down. Jack returns to his old tricks, and his
old demons, as his quest becomes personal.
Sharp and sardonic as ever, "the Godfather of the modern Irish crime
novel" (Irish Independent) is at his brutal and ceaselessly
suspenseful best in A Galway Epiphany.
