From Ireland's most lyrical crime fiction writer, The Ghosts of Galway
pits "perpetually falling Irish angel Jack Taylor" (Mystery Scene)
against a dangerous band of heretics.
As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is
ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a failed suicide
attempt. In need of money, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security
guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for some unexpected
off-the-books work--getting his hands on what some claim to be the first
true book of heresy, The Red Book, which is currently in the
possession of a rogue priest hiding out in Galway. Despite Jack's
distaste for priests of any stripe, the money is too good to turn down.
Em, the woman-of-many-guises who has had a vise on Jack's heart and mind
for the past two years, reappears and turns out to be entangled with the
story of the same blasphemous book. As the novel twists toward a violent
end, Jack is increasingly plagued by ghosts--by the disposable and
disposed of in a city filled with as much darkness as the deepest
corners of Jack's own mind.