Irish detective Jack Taylor - star of Ken Bruen's previous pot-boilers "The Guards" and "The Killing of the Tinkers" - returns in "The Dramatist." Shockingly for devoted readers of Bruen, Taylor has sobered up and life is treating him fairly well. Yet again, however, murder puts him on the trail of a Dublin killer. Throw in an ex-lover (with an abusive husband) and a group of vigilantes, which may or may not be targeting Taylor, and it puts the reluctant detective back into the shadowy Dublin underworld he knows only too well. ($22.95 / 256 pages / Minotaur)