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Coronadoby Dennis LehaneISBN 0061139718 (0-06-113971-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380726289 (0-380-72628-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness, Take My Hand'Book summary:In Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane gives readers an authentic view of the Boston suburb of Dorchester, the scene of A Drink Before the War, winner of the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Dorchester, a solid blue-collar town with no shortage of good spots at which to sully up to the bar for a beer, is tarnished by a 20-year string of strangely similar killings. Patrick Kenzie, a local, becomes the improbable hero of this tale when he makes it his business to solve the slayings. The characters he encounters in Dorchester, with their distinctive accents and colorful pasts, make this mystery not only thrilling, but wildly entertaining. [via]
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A Drink Before the Warby Dennis LehaneISBN 0156029022 (0-15-602902-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Drink Before the War'Book summary:Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents. But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive once they have. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders, while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government. [via]
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- A Drink Before the War: ISBN 0380726238 (0-380-72623-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins - A Drink Before the War: ISBN 015100093X (0-15-100093-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt - A Drink Before the War: ISBN 0553503855 (0-553-50385-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - A Drink Before the War: ISBN 0156029022 (0-15-602902-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
- A Drink Before the War: ISBN 0380726238 (0-380-72623-8)
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A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis LehaneISBN 006117226X (0-06-117226-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Given Dayby Dennis LehaneISBN 0061668214 (0-06-166821-4)
Softcover, Harperluxe
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Gone, Baby, Goneby Dennis LehaneISBN 0061336211 (0-06-133621-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone, Baby, Gone'Book summary:Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who'd somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn't try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I'm clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane's fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane's success.
Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he's involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child's life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.
Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: Darkness, Take My Hand, A Drink Before the War, Sacred. --Dick Adler [via]
Lehane 24c D Fdby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380809540 (0-380-80954-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 0060185635 (0-06-018563-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystic River'Book summary:Dennis Lehane's Mystic River takes the material of the ordinary police procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were friends, until one day Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again. As men, Dave is a damaged fantasist, safe in a quietly happy marriage; Jimmy a retired criminal making a good respectable living for the sake of his children; and Sean is the homicide cop who finds himself investigating the murder of Jimmy's eldest daughter Katie. This is not just a book about what becomes of the children who grow into adults; it is about what happens to a neighbourhood when the rules change, when an old established working-class district acquires gentrified espresso bars at one end and the beats of the city's most dangerous whores at the other. It is also a book about the tragedy of all sudden violent deaths; we never forget our sense of Katie as she was, dancing on the last night of her life--she is never just the corpse here, never just the object of mourning and investigation. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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- Mystic River: ISBN 0060584750 (0-06-058475-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Mystic River: ISBN 0380731851 (0-380-73185-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Mystic River: ISBN 0060093102 (0-06-009310-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Mystic River: ISBN 0552211079 (0-552-21107-9)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Mystic River: ISBN 0060185635 (0-06-018563-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Mystic River: ISBN 0060584750 (0-06-058475-0)
Prayers for Rainby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380730367 (0-380-73036-7)
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Sacredby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380726297 (0-380-72629-7)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred'Book summary:Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St. Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming. [via]
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Shutter Islandby Dennis LehaneISBN 006054550X (0-06-054550-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shutter Island'Book summary:The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.
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