TASKS:Get GunKill DoyleSave JackThe eagerly awaited sequel to The Lemon Man, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Novel and a Deadly Pleasures Magazine Top 10 Paperback of the Year. Patrick Callen is a bike-riding hitman with mild OCD trying to save his crumbling relationship with his live-in girlfriend while racing through Dublin to save his kidnapped mentor from execution.

The ransom: ticking off a to-do list of murders that will make Patrick a target of the police, the mob, and his closest friends. .

. and doom his romance.

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if it doesn't get him killed first. Praise for Murder on the Dodder"Briskly paced, unrelenting action.

Bruton writes of Dublin’s landmarks and alleys with transporting affection. Fans will walk away satisfied.

" Publishers Weekly“Fast-paced, thrilling, and incredibly addictive, this novel was impossible to put down. I loved Keith Bruton's debut, and this follow-up is just as adrenaline-fueled!" Awais Khan, author of Someone Like Her"This is a Dublin hitman’s diary, a fast-moving thriller with a high body count.

The novel relentlessly charges forward with the author constantly surprising and wrongfooting the reader. " Writing.

iePraise for The Lemon Man"A fast-paced crime novel that is both hilarious & hardboiled, its main character both ruthless and oddly sympathetic. " ABC News"Sparkling prose, a well-realized setting, and appealing characters make this offbeat crime novel a winner.

Bruton is definitely an author to watch. " Publishers Weekly"Keith Bruton's passion for his hometown of Dublin and for crime fiction shines like a beacon in his glorious debut novel.

His quiet, domestic set pieces are as rewarding, and as exciting in some ways, as his riveting action scenes. " Mystery Scene Magazine.