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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Once Were Cops by Ken Bruen

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Also by Ken Bruen:

Galway's Edge, March 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Pimp, March 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Headstone, October 2011
Hardcover
The Devil, September 2010
Hardcover
Once Were Cops, November 2008
Hardcover
The Max, September 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Slide, October 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Ammunition, August 2007
Paperback
Priest, March 2007
Hardcover (reprint)
American Skin, September 2006
Hardcover
Calibre, August 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
Bust, May 2006
Paperback
The Dramatist, March 2006
Hardcover
The Magdalen Martyrs, February 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Vixen, August 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Rilke on Black, April 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice, April 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
Killing of the Tinkers, March 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Blitz, June 2004
Paperback (reprint)
The Guards, January 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
The White Trilogy, March 2003
Paperback (reprint)
London Boulevard, May 2002
Paperback (reprint)
The Hackman Blues, January 1997
Paperback (reprint)

ONCE WERE COPS
By: Ken Bruen

Minotaur Books
November 2008
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Featuring: Michael O'Shea; Tebar
304 pages
ISBN: 0312384408
EAN: 9780312384401
Hardcover
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Suspense | Thriller Police Procedural | Mystery Hard Boiled

Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.

Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed Kebar for his liberal use of a short, lethal metal stick called a K-bar, the two unlikely partners become a devastatingly effective force in the war against crime.

But Kebar harbors a dangerous secret: he's sold out to the mob to help his sister. Her rape and beating leaves her in a coma and pushes an already unstable Kebar over the edge just as Shea’s dark secrets threaten boil over and into the streets of New York.