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STORIES AND STORY COLLECTIONS Ken has written many short stories which are in story collections, magazines... and some are being printed as special editions. We'll try to keep this page updated with all the latest information on what's available. For various stories, click here. For collections of special editions, see below. NEW AND UPCOMING 
A FIFTH OF BRUEN
May 2006 ISBN: 0-9767157-2-4, trade paperback, introduction by Allan Guthrie An omnibus collection of Ken's first four novels and two short story collections has been published by Busted Flush Press. The following stories/short novels comprise the collection: Shades of Grace (1993) (short novel) Martyrs (1994) (short novel) Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities (1992) Sherry: And Other Stories (1994) Time of Serena-May/Upon the Third Cross (1995) All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose Read reviews here (Crime Scene Scotland) and here (The Galway Advertiser) ("...a must for all true Bruen fans."). *The latter has a great photo of Ken! From the introduction: "Imagine, if you will, the time before Jack Taylor, the time before Brant & Roberts, the time before Serpent's Tail published Rilke In Black and Her Last Call To Louis MacNeice. Picture a bar in the west of Ireland. It's evening. Smoke hangs thick in the air. Laughter bounces from table to table. It's the Galway Arms Bar, and there's the young Ken Bruen, smiling and joking as he hands over a copy of his latest book to a brand new reader. That reader was one of the lucky ones. "Ken Bruen's early works have been much sought after in the last few years, and they've been virtually impossible to obtain. "Until now..." * * * Check the Busted Flush Press website for information on a cool zippo lighter to go with the book...  
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by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr (Hard Case Crime, May 2006, 256 pages) Did Max Fisher ever love his wife Deirdre? Maybe once, briefly—but that was a long time ago. Now he just wishes she were gone, so he wouldn't have to keep hiding his affair with his gorgeous Irish-American executive assistant, Angela. But how do you arrange for an unwanted spouse to disappear? The old-fashioned way: You hire a hit man. But the man Max hires—an ex-IRA bruiser of Angela's acquaintance—is an uncontrollable sociopath. He's also, secretly, Angela's boyfriend. And he and and Angela have plans for Max that the philandering businessman might not care for... PW says: "A seamless blend of Bruen's dead-on Irish underworld and Starr's hellish vision of the Big Apple, Hard Case's latest release is smart, trashy fun, fulfilling ably the series' irresistible promise..." 
Murder By The Book: A 48-page, limited edition (limited to 300 copies) hardback, numbered, signed by Ken. Features an introduction by C. J. Box (but not signed by Box). $25.
Learn more about it, and order from Busted Flush Press. Only a few copies left!
The limited edition (150 copies) is bound in a light green cloth. The collectors edition (26 copies) is in a dark green cloth, presented in a clamshell case with a reproduction of a carved Celtic cross on one side and the book on the other. Sorry... Both editions SOLD OUT! A.S.A.P. Publishing 23852 Via Navarra, Mission Viejo, CA 92691 Phone: 949-455-1319 Fax: 949-455-1359 VARIOUS SHORT STORIES Read a new short story, To Have and To Hold, by Ken in Hardluck Stories. An essay by Ken Bruen about his relationship with his father, I Never Sang For My Father, appears in The Quiet Quarter, a collection of Irish writing edited by Eoin Brad. Ken has a new short story, White Irish, in the forthcoming anthology (April, 2005), The Cocaine Chronicles, edited by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon. Other contributors include Susan Straight, Lee Child, Jerry Stahl, Laura Lippman, Bill Moody and Nina Revoyr. Ken's short story Losing My Religion is in the November 2004 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Ken's short story, Fade To...Brooklyn, is in the story collection Brooklyn Noir.  |
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