Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future.
In 1954 on a remote island in Massachusetts Bay, a mental patient has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital. Since there is no way off the island, logic dictates that she must be hiding somewhere, and the hospital calls in US Marshalls Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule to flush her out. But when they arrive, they find that there is more going on than a ...
Billionaire Trevor Stone is dying, and his grief-stricken daughter has been missing for three weeks. Stone hires detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to track her down. But as they search, Patrick and Angie dig up cult members, millions of dollars of stolen funds, and a huge quantity of heroin. What does all this have to do with Stone's ...
State trooper Sean Devine is assigned to investigate the murder of the daughter of Jimmy Marcus. Jimmy and Sean have been friends since childhood. A third old friend, Dave Boyle, may or may not have much more sinister ties to the crime. Lehane's exploration of the three friends' intertwined, checkered pasts is set against the backdrop of working ...
From Lehane, the award-winning author of "Mystic River" and "Shutter Island" comes a brilliant collection of five short stories and a play. At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these tales journey headlong into the myths about class, gender, freedom, and violence.
Private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find an abducted 6-year-old girl. Their initial efforts are stalled by a corrupt police force, the media's exploitation of every possible sensationalist angle, and a slew of unsavory characters. The pressure mounts when a second child disappears and the list of suspects only ...
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators. They take on a seemingly simple assignment: uncover the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential documents. However, finding the woman proves easy compared to staying alive once they have.
The fifth novel in Dennis Lehane's Boston-based series finds private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his beautiful sidekick Angela Gennaro in a battle of wits against a killer whose intense psychological manipulation drives his victims to suicide.
When Detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist, they soon find the bodies are piling up around them. And what's more, all the clues point to a serial killer who has been in prison for 20 years, so he can't be killing again, can he?
With novels like "Mystic River" and "Shutter Island," Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller--while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume--two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of ...
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."--Agatha Christie Perhaps that is why audiences continue to be captivated by what Raymond Chandler called "The Simple Art of Murder." For who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? People, sometimes in ordinary situations, sometimes in extraordinary ones, but in every respect, human. ...
Each story in "Boston Noir" is set in a different neighborhood of the city. This impressively diverse collection of mystery stories extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.
Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the story "Running out of Dog" which was featured in "The Best American Mystery Stories 2005" and "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century". It also includes the full text of ...
In 1954 on a remote island in Massachusetts Bay, a mental patient has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital. Since there is no way off the island, logic dictates that she must be hiding somewhere, and the hospital calls in US Marshalls Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule to flush her out. But when they arrive, they find that there is more going on than a ...
The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, and dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas ...
When Jimmy Marcus's daughter is found dead, his childhood friend Sean Devine is assigned the case. Sean's personal life begins to unravel as his investigation takes him back into a world of violence and pain he thought he'd left behind. His quest also leads him on a collision course with Marcus--a man with his own dark past--and David Boyle, a man ...
State trooper Sean Devine is assigned to investigate the murder of the daughter of Jimmy Marcus. Jimmy and Sean have been friends since childhood. A third old friend, Dave Boyle, may or may not have much more sinister ties to the crime. Lehane's exploration of the three friends' intertwined, checkered pasts is set against the backdrop of working ...
From Dennis Lehane, the award-winning author of "Mystic River, Shutter Island," and the Kenzie-Gennaro series, comes a striking collection of five short stories and a play. A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle. . . . A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line ...
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