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Sacred by Dennis Lehane
Kenzie and Gennaro are hired by an incredibly wealthy – and dying – Trevor Stone to find his missing daughter. Things soon start to get complicated. Kenzie’s own mentor was looking for Desiree Stone and is now also MIA. Kenzie and Gennaro will venture from a shady Grief Counselling organisation, that is possibly connected to…
1990s, 1st pov, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, BOSTON, CRIME, cults, DENNIS LEHANE, DETECTIVE, FLORIDA, HARD-BOILED, KENZIE & GENNARO, LEHANE’S BOSTON, male authors, MISSING DAUGHTERS, missing persons, MYSTERY, Noir, PATRICK KENZIE, private investigator, published in 1997, read in 2018, SACRED, SUSPENSE, THRILLER -
Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
“Guns, guns, guns. Three hundred and sixty degrees of pure violence.” The thing about Lehane is that he can write bloody good thrillers. His gritty stories –reminiscent of hard-boiled crime novels– never fail to entertain. Moreover, he always, always, manages to surprise – if not shock– you.Kenzie and Gennaro’s investigation is full of well-paced twists…
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A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
“Come on, kids.”I stood. “Where?”“There’s a bar around the corner. Lemme buy you drink before the war.” Despite having read two of the later instalments of Kenzie & Gennaro, I was still able to enjoy this first investigation of theirs. They are perhaps less weathered than their future selves but their line of enquiry is…