KEN BRUEN, the Galwegian and internationally acclaimed crime fiction author, has received a nomination in the 2010 Spinetingler Awards.
Ken is nominated in the Legends category for the novel Tower, which he wrote with the award winning American crime author Reed Farrel Coleman.
Also nominated in the same category are Irish writer Michael Connelly for The Scarecrow and Scottish author Ian Rankin for his excellent novel The Complaints.
Rankin will be reading in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday April 22 at 8.30pm as part of Cúirt.