- Fiction, Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston’s gritty blue-collar streets.Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark -- the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 406
- Publisher
- Lian pu chu ban, RBA, Piemme
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9784042791058
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- Fiction
- Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
- Psychopaths
- Detective and mystery stories
- Psychological fiction
- Mystery
- Large type books
- Kenzie, patrick (fictitious character), fiction
- Gennaro, angela (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
“The first time I met Karen Nichols, she struck me as the kind of woman who ironed her socks.”
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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