- Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Mystery, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying tale of darkness and redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 455
- Publisher
- Severn House, Świat Książki, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- fin, Dutch, Swedish, German
- ISBN
- 9780553505849
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- Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character)
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Detective and mystery stories
- Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Kenzie, patrick (fictitious character), fiction
- Gennaro, angela (fictitious character), fiction
- Massachusetts, fiction
- Boston (mass.), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
“Angie and I were up in our belfry office trying to fix the air conditioner when Eric Gault called.”
Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including *A Drink Before the War*. Four of his novels were adapted into award-wining films of the same names: *Mystic River* (2003), *Shutter Island* (2010), and *Gone Baby Gone* (2007) and *Live by Night* (2016). [*--Wikipedia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane)
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