Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his
hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten
languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and
a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and Jack
Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly
terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who
have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway,
Ireland.
Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this
organization seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspect of
Jack's life. Jack's usual allies, Ridge and Stewart, are also in the
line of terror. An act of appalling violence alerts them to the sleeping
horror, but this realization may be too late, as Headstone barrels along
its deadly path right to the center of Jack's life and the heart of
Galway. A terrific read from a writer called "a Celtic Dashiell
Hammett," Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series
(Philadelphia Inquirer).